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Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn't right. Everyone's brilliant in retrospect.
— Tess Gerritsen
An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door.
— Tess Gerritsen
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
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Only the forgotten are truly dead.
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There's nothing as boring as perfection
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Is this all we are? A necklace of chemicals? Where, in the double helix, does the soul lie?
— Tess Gerritsen
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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Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.
— Tess Gerritsen
That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.
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When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.
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The human mind was expert at filling in missing details and confidently turning them into facts, even if those facts were merely imagined.
— Tess Gerritsen
When everything goes wrong in our lives, it's natural to look around for someone -or something- to blame.
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He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.
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And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it.
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The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.
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When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.
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You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.
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My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
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You don't have to die to go to hell.
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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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She met his gaze, and what she saw in his eyes scared her, because at that instant she saw both possibility and heartbreak. She was ready for neither.
— Tess Gerritsen
Can you ever really know a person?
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Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!
— Tess Gerritsen
Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.
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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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The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it's where you learn how insignificant you truly
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Laura would never be so easily intimidated. She was braver than he could ever be, brave enough to wave her ugly scars like scarlet flags.
— Tess Gerritsen
Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.
— Tess Gerritsen
From the moment we're born, death is our final destination. Only the date and time of our arrival is unknown.
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All those mounted heads in the living room," said Jane. "And he ends up hanging, like some dead animal. I'd say we've got a theme going here.
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We are so good at killing each other, she thought. Yet we fail so miserably at love.
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In memory of Jim Heacock "In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty." - William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part III
— Tess Gerritsen
There is honor between bitches
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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.
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Parenthood is nothing but doubts.
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We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.
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Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?
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Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.
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If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it?
— Tess Gerritsen
One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
— Tess Gerritsen
We are all descended from monsters.
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Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles
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My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.
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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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Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They're the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere.
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We dream our dreams, she thought, and sometimes they take us places we never anticipate.
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After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer.
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Including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party.
— Tess Gerritsen
Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.
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No man easily admits that he is afraid.
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She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late.
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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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Men that age aren't known for their superior judgment.
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Maybe it's because I can't have him that I feel safe wanting him. He's beyond my reach, so he won't hurt me.
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Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.
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I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised. — Tess Gerritsen
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!
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We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles
— Tess Gerritsen
The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders.
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He knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.
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Why do we always treat kids like the enemy?" "Because they so often behave like an alien species?
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Life was too often a series of interruptions. Phone calls, family crises, other people always interrupting,
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I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.
— Tess Gerritsen
ADD has turned into a catchall for all childhood misbehavior. When a student's failing in class, or he gets into mischief,
— Tess Gerritsen
I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people.
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Everything's a gamble, love most of all.
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Muscles burned and her knees ached, but she did not stop. She owed that much to him and would not abandon him a second
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Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late.
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I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
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Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.
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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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Only animals should have to pee in the woods.
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That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary.
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Every human on this earth had secrets.
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