Tess Gerritsen quotes

Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions. (Tess Gerritsen)

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

Tess Gerritsen

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

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That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

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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.

Tess Gerritsen

Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the only Asian kid in my elementary school, and I longed to be like everyone else. I insisted on American food; I was embarrassed by my mother's poor English.

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I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

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I know there's evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don't need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

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The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

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Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

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We are all descended from monsters. (Tess Gerritsen)

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

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Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.

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We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

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

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Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?

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There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

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The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

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

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There is honor between bitches.

Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: June 12, 1953
Quotes count: 20

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