203 Quotes by Tess Gerritsen

Nadine did a lot of listening. It was the men who seemed to do all the talking.

Can you ever really know a person?

I’ve just confirmed every bad joke ever told about second violin players. Question: How many second violinists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: They can’t go that high. Gerda.

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.

An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door.

But roses! Even through winter they persisted, bare and thorny, like angry old women crouched in the cold.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.

I believe that every experience, every wrong decision, teaches us something. That’s why we shouldn’t be afraid to make mistakes.