“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“You don't have to die to go to hell.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?
The Sixth Sense.
Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“No man easily admits that he is afraid.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it?”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“But human anatomy and human endurance are variable. While the much younger nun had succumbed to her injuries, Ursula's heart kept beating, her body unwilling to surrender its soul. Not a miracle, merely one of those quirks of fate, like the child who survives a fall from a sixth-floor window, and is only scratched.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation,just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“Life is a series of complications. We have to deal with each one as it comes.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
“We’re all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it’s always such a surprise. The”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Sinner
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“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from The Lacuna
“Immediately after the race, even as he sat gasping for air in the Husky Clipper while it drifted down the Langer See beyond the finish line, an expansive sense of calm had enveloped him. In the last desperate few hundred meters of the race, in the searing pain and bewildering noise of that final furious sprint, there had come a singular moment when Joe realized with startling clarity that there was nothing more he could do to win the race, beyond what he was already doing. Except for one thing. He could finally abandon all doubt, trust absolutely without reservation that he and the boy in front of him and the boys behind him would all do precisely what they needed to do at precisely the instant they needed to do it. He had known in that instant that there could be no hesitation, no shred of indecision. He had had no choice but to throw himself into each stroke as if he were throwing himself off of a cliff into a void, with unquestioned faith that the others would be there to save him”
― Daniel James Brown, quote from The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.”
― Richard Flanagan, quote from The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“...Nebraska was white, a page as still as fallen snow. It was not crosshatched with roads, overrun with the hard lines of interstate systems. It was a state on which you could make lists, jot down phone numbers, draw pictures.”
― Ann Patchett, quote from The Magician's Assistant
“And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.”
― David Sedaris, quote from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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