Quotes by Tess Gerritsen

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

“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 kno...”

“Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that...”

“Im a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.”

“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 t...”

“I know theres evil in the world, and there always has been. But you dont need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”

“Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her.”

“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...”

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

“It's just something I'll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I'll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by ...”

“But something-luck, fate, conspiracy, whatever you want to call it-has thrown us together." He leaned forward, his gaze never leaving her face. "Of all the crazy places in the world, here we are, a...”

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

“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.”

“No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sig...”

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

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

“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”

“'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and findi...”

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

“Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the sto...”