01c. 1987 ADThe heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
02c. 1987 ADI’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
03c. 1987 ADWith every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
04c. 1987 ADGod, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
05c. 1987 ADI 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.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
06c. 1987 ADHer technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
07c. 1987 ADOnly by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
08c. 1987 ADBut something-luck, fate, conspiracy, whatever you want to call it-has thrown us together." He leaned forward, his gaze never leaving her face. "Of all the crazy places in the world, here we are, at the same table, in the same dirty Vietnamese cafe. And..." He paused, his brown eyes warm, his crooked smile a fleeting glimmer in his seriousness. "I'm beginning to think it's time we gave in and followed this crazy script. Time we followed our instincts.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
09c. 1987 ADEvil 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 / quote ↗
10c. 1987 ADHa! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like." .. "What what feels like?"..."Love," said Angela.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
11c. 1987 ADHe looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
12c. 1987 ADSome people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
13c. 1987 ADIt's just something I'll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I'll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by a bus. That's the way life is. Just surviving another day comes with its own risk.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
14c. 1987 ADNo matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
16c. 1987 ADThe Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
18c. 1987 ADYou know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?The Sixth Sense.Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
19c. 1987 AD'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
20c. 1987 ADOne of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
21c. 1987 ADBecause I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
22c. 1987 ADI was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
23c. 1987 ADMy dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
24c. 1987 ADI met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England.Tess Gerritsen / quote ↗
