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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
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Only the forgotten are truly dead.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
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Tess Gerritsen (Keeping The Dead (Rizzoli & Isles, #7))
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The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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Everything's a gamble, love most of all.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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You don't have to die to go to hell.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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We are all descended from monsters.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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There is honor between bitches
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
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She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.
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Tess Gerritsen (Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8))
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Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.
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Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli & Isles Series Collection: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, Keeping the Dead and The Killing Place)
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
“
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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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No man easily admits that he is afraid.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
“
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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
“
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.
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Tess Gerritsen (Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8))
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She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
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Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
“
Is this all we are? A necklace of chemicals? Where, in the double helix, does the soul lie?
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen
“
When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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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?
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #4))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
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I believe one has to get one's hand dirty or you're nothing but a hobbyist.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7))
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Deves prestar sempre atenção aos teus sonhos, ensinara-lhe a mãe. São vozes que te dizem o que já sabes, sussurrando-te conselhos que ainda não seguiste.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7))
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Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
“
Bella,Jane'in gözlerinin içine baktı. "Adalet herkesin paylaştığı bir sorumluluktur.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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Life was too often a series of interruptions. Phone calls, family crises, other people always interrupting,
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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Life is a series of complications. We have to deal with each one as it comes.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
“
You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?
The Sixth Sense.
Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
“
Aslında hepimiz yaralıyız. Sadece bazılarımızın yarası diğerlerinden daha fazla belli, o kadar.
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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There's nothing as boring as perfection
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
“
Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every wild impulse.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
“
My name is Mila, and this is my journey.
There are so many places where I could begin the story. I could start in the town where I grew up, in Kryvicy, on the banks of the Servac River, in the district of Miadziel. I could begin when I was eight years old, on the day my mother died, or when I was twelve, and my father fell beneath the wheels of the neighbour’s truck. But I think I should begin my story here, in the Mexican desert, so far from my home in Belarus. This is where I lost my innocence. This is where my dreams died.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
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Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
“
Kalpler,sonuçlarını pek değerlendirmeden seçimlerini yapar.Seçimini yaptıktan sonra da kendisini bekleyen yalnız geceleri düşünmez.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7))
“
Maura dertli bir kahkaha attı. "Bir ilişkinin dayandırılabileceği en sağlam şey trajedi.
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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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
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else’s.
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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Sahip olamayacağın bir adama aşık olduysan hayal kırıklığından başka ne elde edebilirsin ki?
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Tess Gerritsen (The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7))
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Sometimes, she thought, you've got to accept a helping hand. Sometimes you've got to admit you can't do it all by yourself.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
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We are so good at killing each other, she thought. Yet we fail so miserably at love.
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Tess Gerritsen (Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8))
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We dream our dreams, she thought, and sometimes they take us places we never anticipate.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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I'm sorry to say that too often, I haven't a clue why people do things like this. Why they drown their babies or strangle their wives or shoot their coworkers. I see the results of their actions, but I can't tell you what sets them off. I just know that it happens. And people are capable of doing terrible things.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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But human anatomy and human endurance are variable. While the much younger nun had succumbed to her injuries, Ursula's heart kept beating, her body unwilling to surrender its soul. Not a miracle, merely one of those quirks of fate, like the child who survives a fall from a sixth-floor window, and is only scratched.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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So much of what passes for excitement in our lives cannot be anticipated, and we must learn to savor the spectacles as they come, and appreciate the rare thrills that punctuate the otherwise monotonous passage of time.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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Maura moved quietly to the alcove. There she lit three candles for three women. One for Sister Ursula. One for Sister Camille. And one for a faceless leper whose name she would never know. She did not believe in heaven or hell; she was not even sure she believed in the eternal soul.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #3))
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It's yet another thing that irritates me this morning, on top of the fact that I'm hungry. I didn't sleep well, and now the mosquitos have found me. Mosquitos always find me. Whenever I step outside , it's as if they can hear their dinner bell ring, and already I am slapping at my neck and face.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
“
Kalp meselelerinde, ıstırap refakat bulmaya can atar.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
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fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #1))
“
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.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
“
This is what love does to you, Jane thought. It makes you afraid, not brave. It gives the world carnivorous teeth that are poised at any moment to rip away chunks of your life.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
“
THE GIRL WAS TWENTY-THREE POUNDS OF NO! NO, BED! NO, SLEEP! No, no, no!
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Tess Gerritsen (Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles #8))
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That was the day she learned she was the daughter of a lioness.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Keepsake (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #7))
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Friendships are broken all the time. So are hearts.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
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Only animals should have to pee in the woods.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
“
Predators go on vacations, too. They take drives in the country and enjoy the smell of the sea, just like everyone else. They are perfectly human. Outside,
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
“
Güç sahibi olmak, onu yitirmekten sürekli korkmak demekti.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
“
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire’?
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
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Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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Where we go depends upon where we know. And where we know depends upon where we go
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
“
İtibar kırılgan bir şeydir; bir ince çatlak onu paramparça eder.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
“
Happy is he who is forever faced with the hour of his death
And prepares himself for the end every day.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
“
She looked down at their hands and thought: This man never wavers. No matter how hard I push against him, he is always right there for me. Whether I deserve him or not.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
“
But if you get hurt, you’re not the only one who bleeds, Jane. I do, too.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
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She needed so badly to sleep, but could not quiet the chaos in her head.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
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She had never paid much attention to the heart beating in her own chest. As she watched the pattern traced by Korsak's, she became aware of her own pulse. She had always taken her heartbeat for granted, and she wondered what it would be like, to hang on every beat, fearful that the next might not come. That the throb of life in her chest would suddenly go still.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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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
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
“
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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
“
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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
“
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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #1))
“
A ROW OF SKULLS glared from atop a wall of intricately stacked femurs and tibias. Though it was June, and she knew the sun was shining on the streets of Paris sixty feet above her, Dr. Maura Isles felt chilled as she walked down the dim passageway, its walls lined almost to the ceiling with human remains. She was familiar, even intimate, with death, and had confronted its face countless times on her autopsy table, but she was stunned by the scale of this display, by the sheer number of bones stored in this network of tunnels beneath the City of Light. The one-kilometer tour took her through only a small section of the catacombs. Off-limits to tourists were numerous side tunnels and bone-filled chambers, their dark mouths gaping seductively behind locked gates.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #4))
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The gate downstairs has a dead bolt,” said Frost. “There’s no way you could pick the lock.” “Then how could anyone …” She went dead silent. Turned toward the doorway. Footsteps were thumping up the stairs. In an instant her weapon was drawn and clutched in both hands. Pushing aside Mr. Kwan, she quickly slipped out of the bedroom. As she eased her way across the living room, she felt her heart banging, heard Frost’s footsteps creaking on her right. Smelled incense and mold and sweat, a dozen details assaulting her at once. But it was the stairwell door she focused on, a black portal to something that was now climbing toward them. Something that suddenly took on the shape of a man. “Freeze!” Frost commanded. “Boston PD!” “Whoa, Frost.” Johnny Tam gave a startled laugh. “It’s just me.” Behind her, Jane heard Mr. Kwan give a squawk of fear. “Who is he? Who is he?” “What the hell, Tam,” said Frost, huffing out a breath as he holstered his weapon. “I could have blown your head off.” “You did tell me to meet you here, didn’t you? I would’ve gotten here sooner, but I got stuck in traffic coming back from Springfield.” “You talk to the owner of that Honda?” “Yeah. Said it was stolen right out of his driveway. And that wasn’t his GPS in the car.” He swept his flashlight around the room. “So what’s going on in here?” “Mr. Kwan’s giving us a tour of the building.” “It’s been boarded up for years.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
“
Kusursuz suç, diye düşündü Jane. Ama bir görgü tanığı vardı. Mahsen merdiveninin altına saklanmış, sessiz bir kız.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
“
En tatmin edici ödül beklemeye mecbur kaldığındır.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
“
a Dr. Mikovitz. He says you left a message this morning with one of his colleagues.” “Oh, of course.” Maura picked up the phone. “This is Dr. Isles.” Jane turned her gaze back to the X ray, to those three parallel nicks on the cheekbones. She tried to imagine what could have left such a mark. It was a tool that neither she nor Maura had encountered before.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
“
No information is useless. It’s just a key waiting for the right lock to open.
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Tess Gerritsen (Listen to Me (Rizzoli & Isles, #13))
“
The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it’s where you learn how insignificant you truly are.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
“
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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #1))
“
Adalet bilimsel deneyler kadar net değildir. Bazen çok karmaşıktır ve gerçekler durumu iyice karmaşıklaştırır.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
“
Then they’d both watch him get drunk. Family values, that’s what he called it, what he threw in Julianne’s face whenever she tried to leave him. Family values was a threat, the cudgel he used to keep them forever locked with him in battle.
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Tess Gerritsen (Listen to Me (Rizzoli & Isles, #13))
“
Family values meant keeping your head down and your voice soft. It meant having dinner on the table by six and your paycheck in his hand every other Friday. It meant keeping secrets that at any time might explode in your face.
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Tess Gerritsen (Listen to Me (Rizzoli & Isles, #13))
“
was more than their family could ever eat, but that was the point; an abundance of both food and love.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
“
Maybe I don’t really know what love feels like. Because I’ve been too busy fighting it. Just as I fight everything else that might hurt me.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
“
what she did believe in was the power of remembrance. Only the forgotten are truly dead.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
“
Something as deeply personal as faith should not be subjected to another person’s contempt.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
“
And he took the man’s hand.
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Tess Gerritsen (Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8))
“
Then she walked out of his church, and back into her own world.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
“
Then she turned to follow them, and the three demon hunters walked together down the hill.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
“
How far have we strayed from our essential natures. Just the sight of blood can make some men faint, and people scurry to hide such horrors from the public eye, hosing down sidewalks where blood has spilled, or covering children's eyes when violence erupts on the television. Humans have lost touch with who, and what, they really are.
Some of us, however, have not.
We walk among the rest, normal in every respect; perhaps we are more normal than anyone else because we have not allowed ourselves to be wrapped and mummified in civilization's sterile bandages. We see blood, and we do not turn away. We recognize its lustrous beauty; we feel its primitive pull.
Everyone who drives past an accident and cannot help but look for the blood understands this. Beneath the revulsion, the urge to turn away, throbs a greater force. Attraction.
We all want to look. But not all of us will admit it.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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And let's be honest. Sometimes, Jane, you can be a real bitch. - Agent Gabriel Dean
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #4))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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It is not length of life, but depth of life. —Ralph Waldo Emerson For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. —Kahlil Gibran
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Tess Gerritsen (Listen to Me (Rizzoli & Isles, #13))
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Meat comes from the supermarket, where it’s wrapped in plastic. No guts involved.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
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Richard subtly slipped in the fact that he is thriller writer Richard Renwick, creator of MI5 hero Jackman Tripp. Unfortunately none of them had ever heard of Richard or his hero, which led to a prickly first day on safari. But now he’s back in form, doing what he does best: charming his audience. Laying it on too thick, I think. Far too thick. But if I complain about it later, I know exactly what he’ll say. It’s what writers have to do, Millie. We have to be sociable and bring in new readers.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
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Now, I’m not saying it takes a village to raise a kid.” She lowered her gaze back to the baby in her arms. “But it sure does help to have a grandma.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
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Oh Mom, I never realized how much I still need you. Do we ever stop needing our mothers?
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
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If I had just one day to relive, I would spend every minute of it with you. Holding you in bed. Whispering secrets beneath warm sheets.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #1))
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it for Regina. You’ll look so cute together! Mom and daughter in matching dresses!” “Regina’s cute. I’m definitely not.” Angela’s lip began to quiver. It was a sign as subtly ominous as the first
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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Іноді людина, яка може зробити тебе щасливою, - та, на яку не звертаєш уваги, яка терпляче чекає збоку
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Тесс Герритсен (The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7))
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Pesez le matin que vous n'irez peut-etre pas jusqu'au soir, et au soir que vous n'irez peut-etre pas questu'au matin.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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As the lamb is blessed, so is the lion. So is the hunter.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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Survival is only the first step.
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Tess Gerritsen (Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4))
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A lifetime’s worth of memories atomized.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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Hayata karşı hiç bitmeyen memnuniyetsizliği yüzünden internette sürekli daha iyi bir daire, daha iyi bir tatil mekanı, hatta belki de daha iyi bir kız arkadaş arayıp duran Richard.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
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ya mutlu olmayı seçeceksin ya da mutsuzluğu. Başka kimse senin adına karar veremez.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
Tess Gerritsen (I Know A Secret (Rizzoli & Isles, #12))
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I never had to worry about anyone else before, about what I could lose. I didn't know it would scare me so much. Now I've got this big exposed Achilles heel, and all I can think about is how to protect it.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5))
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Your first look at Africa,” said Henk, leaning in to murmur in her ear. “Does it surprise you?” She swallowed. “It’s not what I imagined.”
“What did you imagine? Lions and zebras running around everywhere?” “Well, yeah.”
“That’s the way most Americans picture Africa. They watch too many nature shows on TV, and when they walk off the plane wearing bush jackets and khaki, they’re surprised to find a modern city like Cape Town. Not a zebra in sight, except at the zoo.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #1))
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detective, in a blazer and oxford
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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If anyone lacked the gene for holding a grudge, it was Frost, whose legendary congeniality only served to make Jane look bad.
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Tess Gerritsen (I Know A Secret (Rizzoli & Isles, #12))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #1))
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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. The
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #3))
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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
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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I hate it when a woman lets me down. Gives us all a bad name.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
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There's a whole history that never appears in the Bible, Detective. A secret history you can only find in Canaanite or Hebrew legends. They talk about the marriage between Adam and a free-spirited woman, a cunning temptress who refused to obey her husband, or to lie beneath him as a docile wife should. Instead she demanded wild sex in every position and taunted him when he couldn't satisfy her. She was the world's first truly liberated female, and she wasn't afraid to seek the pleasures of the flesh.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
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Çocuk sahibi olmak, kalbinizin hep dünyanın insafına kalması anlamına geliyordu.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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Adalet herkesin paylaştığı bir sorumluluktur.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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Atalarımızla bağımız olmazsa, hiçbir şeyle ve hiç kimseyle bağı olmayan, gelişigüzel salınan, yapayalnız toz zerreleri oluruz.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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She'd loved their scent--not sweet and cloying like other flowers, but pungent. Assertive. She'd loved the way they sprang up wild in vacant lots and roadsides, reminders that true beauty is spontaneous and irrepressible.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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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 in the universe.
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Tess Gerritsen (Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles #8))
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Children are like fomites." What?" "Spreading infections everywhere they go.
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Tess Gerritsen (Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11))
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He cuts out the one thing that makes them women.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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By taking the womb, he defeminizes his victim. He steals her power.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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I guess it’s that time of month.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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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. I jump into things with both feet, and sometimes it gets me into hot water. But in the end, everything has a way of working out.
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Tess Gerritsen (Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8))
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Hayatınızın yarısını tek bir hedefe adamış bir gençseniz, hedefinize nihayet ulaştığınızda geriye başaracağınız ne kalır ki?
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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Tehlike yalnızca soyut bir kavramken korkusuz olmak kolaydır.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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Cesur mantar toplayıcıları vardır ve yaşlı mantar toplayıcıları vardır, ama yaşlı ve cesur mantar toplayıcıları hiç yoktur.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7))
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Bildiğin yere
gidersin ve gittiğin yeri de bilirsin.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7))
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Confirmation bias had tripped many a scientist, and no doubt many a cop as well. You find only what you’re looking for, which makes it far too easy to overlook everything else.
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Tess Gerritsen (I Know a Secret (Rizzoli & Isles, #12))
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We’re not trying to mess
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
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She was who she was, and either you accepted it or you could just go to hell.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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Happy people are self-contained; they breathe different air and are subject to different laws of gravity.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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Law of Reversed Effect. The harder you try to remember something, the less likely it is you’ll be able to recall it.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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She knew Rollo was trying to intimidate her with the evil eye. Rattle the cop, throw her off balance. He was like too many other assholes she’d known, and his stare was nothing new. Just the last resort of a loser.
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Tess Gerritsen (Vanish (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #5))
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Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it’s always such a surprise.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1))
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Having a child meant your heart was always at the world’s mercy.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9))
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There are far scarier things in this world than dead bodies.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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Already had one reporter worm her
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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Here were the real wages of sin. Not hellfire and damnation, but heartbreak.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6))
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we must learn to savor the spectacles as they come, and appreciate the rare thrills that punctuate the otherwise monotonous passage of time.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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So there was truth to what Julian had just said, about being strange. He was not normal, and he never would be. Cast out by his own family, thrust alone into the wilderness, he’d learned to rely on himself. He had killed a man. Although that killing was in self-defense, the spilling of another’s blood changes you forever, and she wondered how deeply that memory still haunted him.
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Tess Gerritsen (Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles, #10))
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and for a moment she was left blessedly alone.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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You have been getting all worked up about not looking out for me. Me, I've been lying here getting pissed about falling down on the job. I mean literally. Kerplunk.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen (The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3))
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I have mega amounts of rizz
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Dominic Madison
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He’s a drill sergeant,
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Tess Gerritsen (The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2))