Quotes from Tess Gerritsen

Maura moved quietly to the alcove. There she lit three candles for three women. One for Sister Ursula. One for Sister Camille. And one for a faceless leper whose name she would never know. She did not believe in heaven or hell; she was not even sure she believed in the eternal soul.

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

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.

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

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

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

That's what I imagined, a giant game park with comfortable lodges and roads. At a minimum, roads. According to the website, there'd be "bush camping" involved, but I pictured lovely big tents with showers and flush toilets. I didn't think I'd be paying for the privilege of squatting in the bushes.

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

she committed the most

Friendships are broken all the time. So are hearts.

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

She remembered a poster of "The Visible Woman" hanging in her high school health class, revealing the organs in their anatomical positions. Ugly or beautiful, every woman is merely a package of organs

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

They slept because they were exhausted and weak and because most human beings can learn to endure almost anything, even the cries of the tormented. It was not that their hearts had hardened; it was because they could do nothing about it, and powerlessness leads to its own form of serenity.

would have said, Not too hot

Bir daha yaÅŸayabilmek için iki kere ölen benim.

Stay alive, stay safe is every mother's prayer, the same prayer that runs through her own head late at night whenever her twins are out on the town. Stay alive, stay safe.

Happy is he who is forever faced with the hour of his death And prepares himself for the end every day.

Ä°tibar k?r?lgan bir ÅŸeydir; bir ince çatlak onu paramparça eder.

But death wouldn't deter her killer. It would whet his appetite. He'd look at her corpse and see only an object of desire. Someone he can control. She doesn't resist him. She is cool, passive flesh, yielding to any and all indignities. She is the perfect lover. The

As the lamb is blessed, so is the lion. So is the hunter.

The enemy was the microbial world, and over the centuries, it has killed more people than all of man's wars combined.

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

Ac?m t?pk? organlar?m? kemiren bir yarat?k gibi hala canl?.Ölmeyecek.Ölmeyi reddediyor.Onu oraya sen koydun, sen ektin, embriyoya onca y?l?n besinini verdin.Ve sonra yürüyüp gittin. Bana iyilik yapt???n? söyledin.Åžimdi ayr?lmak daha iyi, eÄŸer bu iÅŸ uzarsa sadece daha fazla ac? verecek, dedin. Ac? çekmenin ne olduÄŸunu bilmiyorsun…