Tess Gerritsen famous quotes

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Hurt

Only the forgotten are truly dead.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Forgotten

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.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Believe #Evil #World

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

#Opportunity #Faces #Beast

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

#Wings #Waiting #Sometimes

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

#Thinking #Drs #Isle

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.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Dream #Sometimes #Anticipate

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

#Liberty #Want #Defenders

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

#Courage #Hero #Acting

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

#Enemy #World #Dangerous

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.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Years #Ego #Age

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

#Motherhood #Stronger #Vulnerable

Parenthood is nothing but doubts.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Doubt #Parenthood

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

#Christmas #Offering #Light

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

#Kids #Ideas #Waiting

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.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Journey #Years #Waiting

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.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Hurt #Mean #Names

... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Blow

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.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Beautiful #Giving #False Hope

Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Thinking #Medicine #Stories

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.
-- Tess Gerritsen

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

#Acceptance #Inevitable #Liberation

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

#Lonely #Heart #Night

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.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Detectives #Problem #Harassment

No man easily admits that he is afraid.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Men

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.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Powerful #Children #Divorce

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

#Sleep #Men #Choices

We are all descended from monsters.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Monsters

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

#Doe #Saint #Ends

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.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Moving #Reality #Thinking

You don't have to die to go to hell.
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Hell

Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Stars #Fighting #Guarantees

There is honor between bitches
-- Tess Gerritsen

#Honor

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

#Falling In Love #Oxytocin #Insanity

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.
-- Tess Gerritsen

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

#Pain #Hate #People