Tess Gerritsen Quotes

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

I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised.

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

With 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.

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.

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.