Tess Gerritsen Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
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.
The human mind was expert at filling in missing details and confidently turning them into facts, even if those facts were merely imagined.
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.
When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.
My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
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.
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!
Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.
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.
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.
In memory of Jim Heacock "In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty." - William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part III
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.
We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.
Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.
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?
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.
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.
Including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party.
She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
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.
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!
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.
Life was too often a series of interruptions. Phone calls, family crises, other people always interrupting,
I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.
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.
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.