203 Quotes by Tess Gerritsen

By taking the womb, he defeminizes his victim. He steals her power.

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.

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.

Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They’re the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere.

I am trapped in my own snowbound valley. I am the only one who can rescue me.

We dream our dreams, she thought, and sometimes they take us places we never anticipate.

What happens when we get old? he wondered. Where does the kid part of us go?

Frost lurched away, gagging. The nude man hung upside down, his ankles bound with orange nylon cord. Like a pig carcass hanging in a slaughterhouse, his abdomen had been sliced open, the cavity stripped of all organs. Both arms.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire’?