Quotes from Body Double

“We are all descended from monsters.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Body Double

“Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Body Double

“The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Body Double

“Maybe it's because I can't have him that I feel safe wanting him. He's beyond my reach, so he won't hurt me.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Body Double

“We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Body Double

“She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Body Double

“Be aware every morning that you may not last the day, And every evening that you may not last the night.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Body Double

“A ROW OF SKULLS glared from atop a wall of intricately stacked femurs and tibias. Though it was June, and she knew the sun was shining on the streets of Paris sixty feet above her, Dr. Maura Isles felt chilled as she walked down the dim passageway, its walls lined almost to the ceiling with human remains. She was familiar, even intimate, with death, and had confronted its face countless times on her autopsy table, but she was stunned by the scale of this display, by the sheer number of bones stored in this network of tunnels beneath the City of Light. The one-kilometer tour took her through only a small section of the catacombs. Off-limits to tourists were numerous side tunnels and bone-filled chambers, their dark mouths gaping seductively behind locked gates.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Body Double

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