Michelle Pam > Michelle's Quotes

“You don't have to feel love to give it.”
― Morag Prunty

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.”
― 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

“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

“Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“After years of feeling like a misfit, I've realized that the world is full of other misfits, all of us identifying with Hobbits - - the little guys whom no one else respects. And who quietly end up changing the course of history.”
― Tess Gerritsen

“We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Under the Knife

“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

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

“Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties”
― Tess Gerritsen

“When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Last to Die

“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

“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”
― Judith McNaught, Remember When

“You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.”
― Judith McNaught, Paradise

“You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality”
― Judith McNaught, Whitney, My Love

“Listen carefully to me, darling, because I'm giving you fair warning that I won't let you do this to us. You gave me your love, and I will not let you take it away. The harder you try, the harder I'll fight you. I'll haunt your dreams at night, exactly the way you have haunted mine every night I was away from you. You'll lie awake in bed at night, wanting me, and you'll know I'm lying awake wanting you. And when you can't stand it anymore you'll come back to me and I'll be there waiting for you. I'll cry in your arms, and I'll tell you I'm sorry for everything I have done and you'll help me find a way to forgive myself.”
― Judith McNaught, Almost Heaven

“If you would take one step forward, darling, you could cry in my arms. And while you do, I'll tell you how sorry I am for everything I've done -" Unable to wait, Ian caught her, pulling her tightly against him. "And when I'm finished," he whispered hoarsely as she wrapped her arms around him and wept brokenly, "you can help me find a way to forgive myself."
Tortured by her tears, he clasped her tighter and rubbed his jaw against her temple, his voice a ravaged whisper: "I'm sorry," he told her. He cupped her face between his palms, tipping it up and gazing into her eyes, his thumbs moving over her wet cheeks. "I'm sorry." Slowly, he bent his head, covering her mouth with his. "I'm so damned sorry.”
― Judith McNaught, Almost Heaven