Tess Gerritsen Quotes

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

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  Hurt

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.632, Ballantine Books

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• Only the forgotten are truly dead.

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  Forgotten

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.910, Ballantine Books

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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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  Dream, Sometimes, Anticipate

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.593, Ballantine Books

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

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  Pain, Hate, People

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

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  Knows, Depends

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.135, Ballantine Books

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• Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

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  Doe, Saint, Ends

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.876, Ballantine Books

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• Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

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  Wings, Waiting, Sometimes

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.2134, Ballantine Books

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

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  Enemy, World, Dangerous

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “Call After Midnight”, p.107, MIRA

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Medicine, Stories

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

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  Sleep, Men, Choices

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.1101, Ballantine Books

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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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  Believe, Evil, Needs

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.1701, Ballantine Books

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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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  Falling In Love, Oxytocin, Insanity

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• We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

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  Opportunity, Faces, Beast

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.315, Ballantine Books

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• My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

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  Childhood, Library, San Diego

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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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  Lonely, Heart, Night

  Tess Gerritsen (2008). “The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

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  Thinking, Drs, Isle

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• Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

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  Gamble

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.768, Ballantine Books

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• No man easily admits that he is afraid.

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  Men

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.627, Ballantine Books

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• Ha! 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.

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  Kids, Like Love, Ideas

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.889, Ballantine Books

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• God, 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.

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  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  Tess Gerritsen (2010). “Harvest”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

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  Courage, Hero, Acting

  Tess Gerritsen, Julie Miller, Janie Crouch (2016). “Secrets Uncovered: A Romantic Suspense Collection: Never Say Die\Kansas City Cover-Up\Infiltration”, p.180, Harlequin

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• We are all descended from monsters.

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  Monsters

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.1224, Ballantine Books

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• When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

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  Years, Ego, Age

  Tess Gerritsen (2012). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl”, p.1858, Ballantine Books

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• The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

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  Christmas, Light, Offering

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.886, Ballantine Books

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• Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

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  Doubt, Parenthood

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