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Children are like fomites." What?" "Spreading infections everywhere they go.

Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn't right. Everyone's brilliant in retrospect.

An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door.

The whole world isn't out to hurt you, Jane. - Dean
Because I don't let it - Jane

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

There's nothing as boring as perfection

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

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

Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.

That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love.

When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.

The human mind was expert at filling in missing details and confidently turning them into facts, even if those facts were merely imagined.

Life is a series of complications. We have to deal with each one as it comes.

When everything goes wrong in our lives, it's natural to look around for someone -or something- to blame.

He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.

You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.

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

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

You don't have to die to go to hell.

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

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.

Can you ever really know a person?

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!

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

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

The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it's where you learn how insignificant you truly

I believe one has to get one's hand dirty or you're nothing but a hobbyist.

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

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.

Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.

From the moment we're born, death is our final destination. Only the date and time of our arrival is unknown.

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.

We are so good at killing each other, she thought. Yet we fail so miserably at love.

Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's.

In memory of Jim Heacock "In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty." - William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part III

There is honor between bitches

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.

Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.

Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?

Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.

THE GIRL WAS TWENTY-THREE POUNDS OF NO! NO, BED! NO, SLEEP! No, no, no!

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?

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.

We are all descended from monsters.

Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

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.

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

Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They're the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere.

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

What happens when we get old? he wondered. Where does the kid part of us go?

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.

Fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She

Including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party.

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

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late.

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

Men that age aren't known for their superior judgment.

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.

Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.

I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised.

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!

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

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.

He knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

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

Why do we always treat kids like the enemy?" "Because they so often behave like an alien species?

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

Life was too often a series of interruptions. Phone calls, family crises, other people always interrupting,

meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved.

I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.

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

ADD has turned into a catchall for all childhood misbehavior. When a student's failing in class, or he gets into mischief,

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.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

Muscles burned and her knees ached, but she did not stop. She owed that much to him and would not abandon him a second

Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late.

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.

Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.

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

Only animals should have to pee in the woods.

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

That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary.

Every human on this earth had secrets.

I believe that every experience, every wrong decision, teaches us something. That's why we shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes.