Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsenis an American novelist and retired physician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 June 1953
CountryUnited States of America
years ego age
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.
motherhood stronger vulnerable
Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.
enemy world dangerous
The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.
lonely heart night
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
gamble
Everything's a gamble, love most of all.
journey years waiting
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.
children philosophy maturity
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.
kids like-love ideas
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.
christmas offering light
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
opportunity faces beast
We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.
detectives problem harassment
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.
acceptance inevitable liberation
She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
beautiful giving false-hope
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.
blow
... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.