“Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“There's nothing as boring as perfection”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“This unsub is a classic picquerist. Someone who uses a knife to achieve secondary or indirect sexual release. Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object. The knife is a phallic symbol--a substitution for the male sexual organ. Instead of performing normal sexual intercourse, our unsub achieves his release by subjecting his victim to pain and terror. It's the power that thrills him. Ultimate power, over life and death.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“Gradually the beep of the EKG slowed. Against the steady rhythm of that heartbeat, the two women gazed at each other. If Catherine had recognized a part of herself in Nina’s eyes, so, too, did Nina seem to recognize herself in Catherine’s. The silent sisterhood of victims. There are more of us than anyone will ever know. ”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“No kiss, no embrace, could bring two people any closer than we are right now. The most intimate emotion two people can share is neither love nor desire but pain.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“Catgut is a type of surgical thread made from the intestines of cows or sheep.” “So why do they call it catgut?” asked Rizzoli. “It goes back to the Middle Ages, when gut strings were used on musical instruments. The musicians referred to their instruments as their kit, and the strings were called kitgut. The word eventually became catgut.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“It is cold in my cell. Outside, the harsh winds of February are blowing and I am told it has once again begun to snow. I sit on my cot, a blanket draped over my shoulders, and remember how the delicious heat had enveloped us like a cloak on the day we walked the streets of Livadia. To the north of that Greek town, there are two springs which were known in ancient times as Lethe and Mnemosyne. Forgetfulness and Memory. We drank from both springs, you and I, and then we fell asleep in the dappled shade of an olive grove.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen
Born place: in The United States
See more on GoodReads
“It had all begun, very precisely, he told his mind, on the morning of the 28th of January 1936, at Arkhangelsk railway station. No, his mind responded, nothing begins just like that, on a certain date at a certain place. It all began in many places, and at many times, some even before you were born, in foreign countries, and in the minds of others. —”
― Julian Barnes, quote from The Noise of Time
“I raised my hand and ran a finger across his lower lip. He closed his beautiful eyes and continued to move inside me, filling me, surrendering to me, slowly and passionately.”
― Sharlyn G. Branson, quote from Limits of Destiny
“There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It’s such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away at the wall of separation between friendship and kissing. Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle— oh, look, we broke down this wall, I’m going to look at you like a girl and you’re going to look at me like a boy and we’re going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There. And sometimes that happy middle looks so great that you can convince yourself that it’s not the middle but will last forever.”
― John Green, quote from Let it Snow
“Enlightenment and tolerance, it would seem, have little to do with being lettered or unlettered. His”
― Kiran Nagarkar, quote from Cuckold
“The Wars of Light and Shadow were fought during the third age of Athera, the most troubled and strife-filled era recorded in all of history. At that time Arithon, called Master of Shadow, battled the Lord of Light through five centuries of bloody and bitter conflict. If the canons of the religion founded during that period are reliable, the Lord of Light was divinity incarnate, and the Master of Shadow a servant of evil, spinner of dark powers. Temple archives attest with grandiloquent force to be the sole arbiters of truth”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
Behind Her Eyes
The Butterfly Projec...
The Book of Merlyn
Manners & Mutiny
The Millionaire Fast...BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.
