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My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader! -- Tess Gerritsen
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I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could. -- Tess Gerritsen
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He had a son, but he died some years ago, on a foreign trip. His ex-wife's dead, too, and I've never seen any woman there." Nora shook her head. "It's an awful thing to think about. Dead for four days and no one even notices. That's how unconnected he seemed to be. -- Tess Gerritsen
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God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them. -- Tess Gerritsen
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That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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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
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Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens. -- Tess Gerritsen
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My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, because I didn't feel safe coming out with it. I didn't feel that the market would really accept me. I think I felt it's time to start bringing in an Asian-American point of view. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn't right. Everyone's brilliant in retrospect. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead of time, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants for the first draft. -- Tess Gerritsen
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We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles -- Tess Gerritsen
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When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by. -- Tess Gerritsen
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If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about. -- Tess Gerritsen
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With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, but they've never taken center stage, they've never been really powerful, they've never expressed some of the experiences I had growing up in the U.S. Johnny Tam is the first one. -- Tess Gerritsen
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The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear. -- Tess Gerritsen
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You don't have to die to go to hell. -- Tess Gerritsen
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She met his gaze, and what she saw in his eyes scared her, because at that instant she saw both possibility and heartbreak. She was ready for neither. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing. -- Tess Gerritsen
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We dream our dreams, she thought, and sometimes they take us places we never anticipate. -- Tess Gerritsen
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When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5. -- Tess Gerritsen
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After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties -- Tess Gerritsen
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When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain. -- Tess Gerritsen
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We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead. -- Tess Gerritsen
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The human mind was expert at filling in missing details and confidently turning them into facts, even if those facts were merely imagined. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's. -- Tess Gerritsen
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ADD has turned into a catchall for all childhood misbehavior. When a student's failing in class, or he gets into mischief, -- Tess Gerritsen
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I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school. -- Tess Gerritsen
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We are all descended from monsters. -- Tess Gerritsen
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That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe. -- Tess Gerritsen
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My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things. -- Tess Gerritsen
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The dead do not hurt you; only the living do. -- Tess Gerritsen
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She pressed her fingers to the woman's neck and felt icy skin.
Bending close to the lips, she waited for the whisper of a breath, the faintest puff of air against her cheek.
The corpse opened its eyes. -- Tess Gerritsen
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A project like 'Rizzoli & Isles' is something you can't pursue. It's something that comes to you ... I like to call it 'fairy dust.' And it happened without my having to do anything. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you a sense of how to approach a problem, how to look at symptoms and go down the list of what it might be. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I've just confirmed every bad joke ever told about second violin players. Question: How many second violinists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: They can't go that high. Gerda -- Tess Gerritsen
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Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you. -- Tess Gerritsen
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My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born. In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings, and the weather is always perfect. -- Tess Gerritsen
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That's what I imagined, a giant game park with comfortable lodges and roads. At a minimum, roads. According to the website, there'd be "bush camping" involved, but I pictured lovely big tents with showers and flush toilets. I didn't think I'd be paying for the privilege of squatting in the bushes. -- Tess Gerritsen
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My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors. -- Tess Gerritsen
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. -- Tess Gerritsen
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The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all. -- Tess Gerritsen
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meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved. -- Tess Gerritsen
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We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised. -- Tess Gerritsen
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The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him. -- Tess Gerritsen
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From the moment we're born, death is our final destination. Only the date and time of our arrival is unknown. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the only Asian kid in my elementary school, and I longed to be like everyone else. I insisted on American food; I was embarrassed by my mother's poor English. -- Tess Gerritsen
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One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She -- Tess Gerritsen
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Including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party. -- Tess Gerritsen
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And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like." .. "What what feels like?" ... "Love," said Angela. -- Tess Gerritsen
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In memory of Jim Heacock "In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty." - William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part III -- Tess Gerritsen
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My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' was a very familiar one. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one. -- Tess Gerritsen
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It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Prey animals such as zebras and antelope have eyes at the sides of their heads, but a predator's eyes face forward. Always show the cat your face. Let her see where your eyes are, and she'll know you're a predator, too. She'll think twice before attacking. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Everything's a gamble, love most of all. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Children are like fomites." What?" "Spreading infections everywhere they go. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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But death wouldn't deter her killer. It would whet his appetite. He'd look at her corpse and see only an object of desire. Someone he can control. She doesn't resist him. She is cool, passive flesh, yielding to any and all indignities. She is the perfect lover. The -- Tess Gerritsen
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Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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Your blood reveal your most intimate secrets. Are you dying of leukimia or AIDS? Did you smoke cigarette or drink a glass of wine in the last few hours? Are you prozac because you're depressed, or Viagra because you can't get it up? -- Tess Gerritsen
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He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Look into his mind, his universe. We may think it's sick, but for him, this place is a little slice of paradise. A place where the dead are laid to rest. Just the place the Dominator would come. He walks around here and probably imagines a whole harem of sleeping women right beneath his feet. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I think of all media, television is the most powerful when it comes to selling books, because when you have a feature film, yeah, there's a rush. But then after that month is over and the movie goes out of release, that's it. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I organise jam sessions every month. We have an open session, so everyone knows about it, and we can get as many as 30 people showing up at the house. Somebody will play a tune, and everyone will pick up on it. My best friends are all musicians. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical. -- Tess Gerritsen
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After years of feeling like a misfit, I've realized that the world is full of other misfits, all of us identifying with Hobbits - - the little guys whom no one else respects. And who quietly end up changing the course of history. -- Tess Gerritsen
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The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people. -- Tess Gerritsen
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There's nothing as boring as perfection -- Tess Gerritsen
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Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings. -- Tess Gerritsen
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There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them. -- Tess Gerritsen
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'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone. -- Tess Gerritsen
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So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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. -- Tess Gerritsen
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The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders. -- Tess Gerritsen
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No man easily admits that he is afraid. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I raised two sons, and I know that even though they're bigger and stronger than I am, they're still little boys inside. They still cry, they still hurt. So whenever I write a male character, no matter how 'heroic' he may be, I think of my sons. And I remember that every man was once a little boy. -- Tess Gerritsen
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When everything goes wrong in our lives, it's natural to look around for someone -or something- to blame. -- Tess Gerritsen
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We are so good at killing each other, she thought. Yet we fail so miserably at love. -- Tess Gerritsen
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For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the premise for 'The Keepsake' occurred to me: what if an 'ancient' mummy turns out to have a bullet in its leg? How does a modern murder victim get turned into a mummy? -- Tess Gerritsen
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The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it's where you learn how insignificant you truly -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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Alzheimer's is literally killing us, and the only way to fight this 'crime' is through a groundswell of people who continue to raise their voices and funds to ensure it gets the attention it deserves. -- Tess Gerritsen
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The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I believe that every experience, every wrong decision, teaches us something. That's why we shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I believe one has to get one's hand dirty or you're nothing but a hobbyist. -- Tess Gerritsen
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There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England. -- Tess Gerritsen
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She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned. -- Tess Gerritsen
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The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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. -- Tess Gerritsen
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THE GIRL WAS TWENTY-THREE POUNDS OF NO! NO, BED! NO, SLEEP! No, no, no! -- Tess Gerritsen
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Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They're the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Life was too often a series of interruptions. Phone calls, family crises, other people always interrupting, -- Tess Gerritsen
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Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Only the forgotten are truly dead. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Can you ever really know a person? -- Tess Gerritsen
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Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section. -- Tess Gerritsen
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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
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The whole world isn't out to hurt you, Jane. - Dean
Because I don't let it - Jane -- Tess Gerritsen
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Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost? -- Tess Gerritsen
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Is this all we are? A necklace of chemicals? Where, in the double helix, does the soul lie? -- Tess Gerritsen
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In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living. -- Tess Gerritsen
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What happens when we get old? he wondered. Where does the kid part of us go? -- Tess Gerritsen
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All those mounted heads in the living room," said Jane. "And he ends up hanging, like some dead animal. I'd say we've got a theme going here. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Be aware every morning that you may not last the day, And every evening that you may not last the night. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Think of what it means to manually strangle someone. How personal it is. The close contact. Skin to skin. Your hands against her flesh. Pressing her throat as you feel her life drain away.' Rizzoli -- Tess Gerritsen
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She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I find a package of spaghetti, and I remember seeing bacon and eggs and a block of Parmesan cheese in the refrigerator. I'll make spaghetti carbonara, the perfect -- Tess Gerritsen
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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. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst. -- Tess Gerritsen
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When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Life is a series of complications. We have to deal with each one as it comes. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all! -- Tess Gerritsen
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Now we sit and wait," the woman said, and she settled into a chair, the gun on her lap.
"What are we waiting for?" Jane asked.
The woman stared at her. Said, calmly: "The end. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices. -- Tess Gerritsen
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IF INDEED THESE VARIOUS ATTACKS IN DIFFERENT STATES ARE LINKED, then we're dealing with a set of highly complex ritual behaviors," said Dr. Lawrence Zucker. A criminal psychologist who served as consultant to Boston PD, -- Tess Gerritsen
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He knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile. -- Tess Gerritsen
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In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors. -- Tess Gerritsen
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This is the way modern men do battle, not with spear and sword, but with credit cards. My platinum beats your gold. Poor Elliot with his unisex Minolta is left in the dust, -- Tess Gerritsen
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My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Based on the timing, the circumstances. In July 1970, William Maitland vanished from the face of the earth. In August of the same year, we heard the first reports of a foreign pilot flying for the enemy. Running weapons and gold. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Muscles burned and her knees ached, but she did not stop. She owed that much to him and would not abandon him a second -- Tess Gerritsen
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You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask. -- Tess Gerritsen
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That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Why do we always treat kids like the enemy?" "Because they so often behave like an alien species? -- Tess Gerritsen
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Every human on this earth had secrets. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Men that age aren't known for their superior judgment. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child. -- Tess Gerritsen
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There is honor between bitches -- Tess Gerritsen
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My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Only animals should have to pee in the woods. -- Tess Gerritsen
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I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred. -- Tess Gerritsen
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We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face. -- Tess Gerritsen
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An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Parenthood is nothing but doubts. -- Tess Gerritsen