Tess Gerritsen Quotes

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Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like.".. "What what feels like?"..."Love," said Angela.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

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

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

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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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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.

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

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The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness — it's acting in the face of fear.

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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.

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

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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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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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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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Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

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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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