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Tess Gerritsen is an American novelist and retired physician.

✵ 12. June 1953
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Works

The Sinner
Tess Gerritsen
Body Double
Body Double
Tess Gerritsen
The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen
The Sinner
Tess Gerritsen
Body Double
Body Double
Tess Gerritsen
The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen: 14 quotes1 like

Famous Tess Gerritsen Quotes

“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 book The Mephisto Club

Source: The Mephisto Club

“You don't have to die to go to hell.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Sinner

Source: The Sinner

“We are all descended from monsters.”

Tess Gerritsen book Body Double

Source: Body Double

“The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Sinner

Source: The Sinner

Tess Gerritsen Quotes

“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Sinner

Source: The Sinner

“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”

Tess Gerritsen

Source: Keeping The Dead

“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 book The Surgeon

Source: The Surgeon

“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Sinner

Source: The Sinner

“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 book Body Double

Source: Body Double

“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

Source: Last to Die

“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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