Quotes by Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen

… he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.

Blow

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.

Hurt

Mean

Names

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. But after practicing medicine for a few years, while raising two sons (with a husband who was also a doctor) I realized that combining medicine with motherhood was more of a challenge than I could handle. So I left medicine and stayed home. And that’s when I once again picked up the pen and began to write.

Home

Husband

Writing

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

Defenders

Liberty

Want

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.

Medicine

Stories

Thinking

Motherhood didn’t make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

Motherhood

Stronger

Vulnerable

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

Men

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.

Children

Maturity

Philosophy

Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

Doubt

Parenthood

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

Acceptance

Inevitable

Liberation

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Acceptance

Anticipate

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Beautiful

Blow

Children

Christmas

Defenders

Depends

Doubt

Dream

Faces

False Hope

Giving

Home

Honor

Hurt

Husband

Inevitable

Journey

Knows

Liberation

Liberty

Light

Maturity

Mean

Medicine

Men

Monsters

Motherhood

Names

Offering

Opportunity

Parenthood

Philosophy

Sometimes

Stories

Stronger

Thinking

Vulnerable

Waiting

Want

Writing

Years

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Quotes by Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen

… he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.

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.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

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.

Motherhood didn’t make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

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.

Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

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