203 Quotes by Tess Gerritsen

There are hazards to every job, just like there are hazards to getting up in the morning. Driving to work, walking to the mailbox. Boarding a plane... The surprise isn’t that we die. The surprise is how and when we die.

Children are like fomites.” What?” “Spreading infections everywhere they go.

She remembered a poster of “The Visible Woman” hanging in her high school health class, revealing the organs in their anatomical positions. Ugly or beautiful, every woman is merely a package of organs.

She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late.

It’s just something I’ll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I’ll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by a bus. That’s the way life is. Just surviving another day comes with its own risk.

Sometimes, she thought, you’ve got to accept a helping hand. Sometimes you’ve got to admit you can’t do it all by yourself.

Charles threw down the knife. Its thud was lost in the high-spirited bedlam of young men let loose upon a task so gruesome, the only sane response was perverse frivolity.

Laura would never be so easily intimidated. She was braver than he could ever be, brave enough to wave her ugly scars like scarlet flags.

Why was it always women who had to do the forgiving? she’d wondered.