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21 " The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain. "
― Tess Gerritsen , The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
22 " We are all descended from monsters. "
― Tess Gerritsen , Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4)
23 " That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. "
― Tess Gerritsen , Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10)
24 " Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood. "
25 " The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all. "
26 " There is honor between bitches "
27 " She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned. "
28 " Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings. "
― Tess Gerritsen , Rizzoli & Isles Series Collection: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, Keeping the Dead and The Killing Place
29 " ... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile. "
― Tess Gerritsen , Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8)
30 " What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them. "
31 " We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face. "
32 " Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst. "
― Tess Gerritsen , The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2)
33 " There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe. "
34 " No man easily admits that he is afraid. "
― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)
35 " She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness. "
36 " We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles "
37 " Is this all we are? A necklace of chemicals? Where, in the double helix, does the soul lie? "
38 " Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They’re the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere. "
― Tess Gerritsen , Playing with Fire
39 " Maybe it's because I can't have him that I feel safe wanting him. He's beyond my reach, so he won't hurt me. "
40 " Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every wild impulse. "