Quotes from Tess Gerritsen

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

We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise. The

This unsub is a classic picquerist. Someone who uses a knife to achieve secondary or indirect sexual release. Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object. The knife is a phallic symbol--a substitution for the male sexual organ. Instead of performing normal sexual intercourse, our unsub achieves his release by subjecting his victim to pain and terror.

and for a moment she was left blessedly alone.

detective, in a blazer and oxford

Then they'd both watch him get drunk. Family values, that's what he called it, what he threw in Julianne's face whenever she tried to leave him. Family values was a threat, the cudgel he used to keep them forever locked with him in battle.

Family values meant keeping your head down and your voice soft. It meant having dinner on the table by six and your paycheck in his hand every other Friday. It meant keeping secrets that at any time might explode in your face.

their grotesque angels

You have been getting all worked up about not looking out for me. Me, I've been lying here getting pissed about falling down on the job. I mean literally . Kerplunk.

Confirmation bias had tripped many a scientist, and no doubt many a cop as well. You find only what you're looking for, which makes it far too easy to overlook everything else.

Maybe I don't really know what love feels like. Because I've been too busy fighting it. Just as I fight everything else that might hurt me.

was more than their family could ever eat, but that was the point; an abundance of both food and love.

But roses! Even through winter they persisted, bare and thorny, like angry old women crouched in the cold.

Already had one reporter worm her

But she couldn't shake off her annoyance at her dad, at her brothers, at Father Donnelly, at every man who presumed to tell a woman what her duty was.

Adalet herkesin payla?t??? bir sorumluluktur.

I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them.

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.

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

I organise jam sessions every month. We have an open session, so everyone knows about it, and we can get as many as 30 people showing up at the house. Somebody will play a tune, and everyone will pick up on it. My best friends are all musicians.

While the TV show 'Rizzoli & Isles' may have been inspired by my books, show runner Janet Tamaro has total control over where the TV characters go from there. As Janet once put it, I'm the birth mother, but she's the mother who adopted them, and now that Jane and Maura are living in her house, they have to do what she tells them to do.

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.

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.

I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could.