203 Quotes by Tess Gerritsen

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

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

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!

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

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.

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

Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn’t right. Everyone’s brilliant in retrospect.

Stay alive, stay safe is every mother’s prayer, the same prayer that runs through her own head late at night whenever her twins are out on the town. Stay alive, stay safe.

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.