The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3) QUOTES

1 " The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

3 " You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?

The Sixth Sense.

Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

5 " Everything's a gamble, love most of all. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

7 " No man easily admits that he is afraid. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

9 " Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

11 " We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation,just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

13 " But human anatomy and human endurance are variable. While the much younger nun had succumbed to her injuries, Ursula's heart kept beating, her body unwilling to surrender its soul. Not a miracle, merely one of those quirks of fate, like the child who survives a fall from a sixth-floor window, and is only scratched. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

15 " Maura moved quietly to the alcove. There she lit three candles for three women. One for Sister Ursula. One for Sister Camille. And one for a faceless leper whose name she would never know. She did not believe in heaven or hell; she was not even sure she believed in the eternal soul. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

17 " And let's be honest. Sometimes, Jane, you can be a real bitch. - Agent Gabriel Dean "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

19 " There are far scarier things in this world than dead bodies. "

― Tess Gerritsen , The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)