Quotes from Tess Gerritsen

Only animals should have to pee in the woods.

fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She

That was the day she learned she was the daughter of a lioness.

Frost lurched away, gagging. The nude man hung upside down, his ankles bound with orange nylon cord. Like a pig carcass hanging in a slaughterhouse, his abdomen had been sliced open, the cavity stripped of all organs. Both arms

I hate it when a woman lets me down. Gives us all a bad name.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire'?

She'd earlier heard of Jane's reputation, muttered by the male cops: Bitch. Ballbuster. Always on the rag. The woman who strode onto the crime scene that day had certainly been blunt, focused, and relentless. She was also one of the best detectives Maura had ever encountered.

She looked down at their hands and thought: This man never wavers. No matter how hard I push against him, he is always right there for me. Whether I deserve him or not.

But if you get hurt, you're not the only one who bleeds, Jane. I do, too.

She needed so badly to sleep, but could not quiet the chaos in her head.

This is what love does to you, Jane thought. It makes you afraid, not brave. It gives the world carnivorous teeth that are poised at any moment to rip away chunks of your life.

Nadine did a lot of listening. It was the men who seemed to do all the talking.

Why was it always women who had to do the forgiving? she'd wondered.

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. It's the power that thrills him. Ultimate power, over life and death.

Here were the real wages of sin. Not hellfire and damnation, but heartbreak.

Could anyone truly trust a cat?

Kusursuz suç, diye düÅŸündü Jane. Ama bir görgü tan??? vard?. Mahsen merdiveninin alt?na saklanm??, sessiz bir k?z.

her beam revealing ancient brick walls and the faint glimmer

we must learn to savor the spectacles as they come, and appreciate the rare thrills that punctuate the otherwise monotonous passage of time.

I never had to worry about anyone else before, about what I could lose. I didn't know it would scare me so much. Now I've got this big exposed Achilles heel, and all I can think about is how to protect it.

Every human on this earth had secrets.

Dolay?s?yla detaylara inan?lmaz önem verir, her bir probleme potansiyel bir kriz gözüyle bakard?.

Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise.

Law of Reversed Effect. The harder you try to remember something, the less likely it is you'll be able to recall it.