“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Mephisto Club
“You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Mephisto Club
“Friendships are broken all the time. So are hearts.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Mephisto Club
“her beam revealing ancient brick walls and the faint glimmer”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Mephisto Club
“There's a whole history that never appears in the Bible, Detective. A secret history you can only find in Canaanite or Hebrew legends. They talk about the marriage between Adam and a free-spirited woman, a cunning temptress who refused to obey her husband, or to lie beneath him as a docile wife should. Instead she demanded wild sex in every position and taunted him when he couldn't satisfy her. She was the world's first truly liberated female, and she wasn't afraid to seek the pleasures of the flesh.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Mephisto Club
“I hate it when a woman lets me down. Gives us all a bad name.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Mephisto Club
“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire’?”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Mephisto Club
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“Martie came out of the office first, smiling prettily, and Dusty rose to greet her, smiling less prettily, and Dr. Ahriman entered the waiting room behind her, smiling paternally, and maybe Dusty smiled a little more prettily when he saw the psychiatrist, because the man virtually radiated competence and compassion and confidence and all sorts of good stuff. ”
― Dean Koontz, quote from False Memory
“What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Day Watch
“They trudged through a deep snowdrift. Then, as if blocked by some invisible force field, they stopped. John had seen a lot of crime scenes in the years he’d been a cop. He’d seen death from natural causes and murders so bloody and horrific that even veteran cops dropped to their knees and vomited. He’d seen the neat and brutal execution-style murders common to drug dealers anxious to make their mark. He’d seen innocent children cut down in the crossfire of gangland wars. He’d seen babies murdered and dumped like trash. None of that prepared him for the sight that accosted him now.”
― Linda Castillo, quote from Sworn to Silence
“When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from The Guardian
“But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Forbidden
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