Tess Gerritsen > Quotes

“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Keeping The Dead

“The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“You don't have to die to go to hell.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“We are all descended from monsters.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Body Double

“We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.”
― Tess Gerritsen

“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

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Body Double

“God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Harvest

“There is honor between bitches”
― Tess Gerritsen, Last to Die

“The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Body Double

“She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Silent Girl

“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

“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

“... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Ice Cold

“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

“We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“No man easily admits that he is afraid.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles”
― Tess Gerritsen, Body Double

“Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They’re the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Playing with Fire

“Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Apprentice

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Ice Cold