Tess Gerritsen Quotes

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Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.

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Is this all we are? A necklace of chemicals? Where, in the double helix, does the soul lie?

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We dream our dreams, she thought, and sometimes they take us places we never anticipate.

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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.

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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.

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Be aware every morning that you may not last the day, And every evening that you may not last the night.

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The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

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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.

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If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

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That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and rotonin. Chemical insanity celebrated by poets.

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The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

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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.

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Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

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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.

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

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When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

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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.

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She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

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

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Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

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