Quotes from Tess Gerritsen

If anyone lacked the gene for holding a grudge, it was Frost, whose legendary congeniality only served to make Jane look bad.

She'd loved their scent--not sweet and cloying like other flowers, but pungent. Assertive. She'd loved the way they sprang up wild in vacant lots and roadsides, reminders that true beauty is spontaneous and irrepressible.

A lifetime's worth of memories atomized.

You starve Dad a few days, he'll know how to cook, too. No, he wouldn't. He'd just waste away at the dining table, waiting for dinner to float in all by itself.

Hell, there are times when I'd like to run away from my family.

Angela Rizzoli's worst fear was that someone, someday, would leave her house hungry.

Cesur mantar toplay?c?lar? vard?r ve yaÅŸl? mantar toplay?c?lar? vard?r, ama yaÅŸl? ve cesur mantar toplay?c?lar? hiç yoktur.

There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected—something amazing—could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

My job was to take care of that man, and I've got nothing to show for it. I might as well do the same work and get paid.

I came for midnight Mass, didn't I? He gave a weary laugh, Everyone shows up at Christmas. Even the ones who don't believe.

You're asking me to explain evil. Yes. I can't. Neither can science. It just is.

We share a belief that evil isn't just a concept. It's real, and it has a physical presence. It has a face. He paused. At some time in our lives, we've each seen it in the flesh.

We don't inherit our parents' sins. Or their virtues.

Sed libera nos a malo. Latin. She frowned at him. Deliver us from evil.

And he took the man's hand.

If one believes in the light, one has to believe in the darkness as well.

Every culture has its own ideas of what the Devil looks like. There's only one thing that almost all cultures, dating back to the most primitive tribes, agree on: the Devil actually exists.

No information is useless. It's just a key waiting for the right lock to open.

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.

Survival is only the first step.

Hell calls to Hell sounds ominous enough. Abyssus abyssum invocat is a saying that dates back at least a thousand years. It means One evil deed leads to another.

It is not length of life, but depth of life. —Ralph Waldo Emerson For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. —Kahlil Gibran

He cuts out the one thing that makes them women.

By taking the womb, he defeminizes his victim. He steals her power.