Top 100 Quotes About Tess
#1. 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
#2. Nathaniel Strider could never love. He's obviously discovered early on that girls' hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet.
Tess Oliver
#3. 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
#4. You're not the kind of girl a guy wants to be friends with, you're the kind of girl he wants to give his heart to.
Tess Oliver
#5. Don't you dare hide behind your illness!"
"You were the one who just said I couldn't help it!"
"You can't help being ill, but you can help what you do about it," Eithne says sharply.
Tess Stimson
#6. Tess and Clare unconsciously studied each other, ever balanced on the edge of a passion, yet apparently keeping out of it. All the while they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale.
Thomas Hardy
#7. My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
Tess Gerritsen
#8. Your thigh? Your shoulder? Is there any part of you that hasn't been hurt yet?"
He seemed to be contemplating my question for a moment and then he nodded. He tapped his chest. "Yeah, my heart." He looked over at me. "But its feeling mighty vulnerable these days, so who knows.
Tess Oliver
#9. My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.
Tess Henley
#10. sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in
Laura Lippman
#11. It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.
Tess Gerritsen
#12. 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
#13. The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.
Tess Gerritsen
#14. I'd kill for you, Tess. I have killed for you. Don't undermine me by fearing others. Fear me. Let me rule you!
Pepper Winters
#15. 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
#16. meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved.
Tess Gerritsen
#17. It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.
Tess Gallagher
#18. We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.
Tess Gerritsen
#20. Tess focuses on Cyclops's placid, one-eyes face. He lost one of his black button eyes year ago, but she wouldn't let Mrs. O'Hare replace it. She said it made him more interesting, and changed his name from Barnabus.
Jessica Spotswood
#21. 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
#22. I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised.
Tess Gerritsen
#23. I want to kiss you again, Tess."
"Why?"
He chuckled, low under his breath. "Why? Because you're beautiful, and because I want you. And I think you want me too.
Lara Adrian
#24. Aren't there different electrical outlets here? And what about money? And isn't it-"
"Relax, Tess," Taylor told me. "I have everything covered.
Embee
#25. 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
#26. His arms held me like a vice, and I wondered if he would crush the life from me, and it occurred to me that I didn't care as long as I died in his arms ...
Tess Oliver
#27. 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
#28. Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.
Tess Gerritsen
#29. But my heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.
Tess Sharpe
#30. Having you around is like having a piece of the North star break off and drop to earth.
Tess Oliver
#31. Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles
Tess Gerritsen
#32. 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
#33. Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.
Thomas Hardy
#34. She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.
Tess Thompson
#35. When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.
Tess Gallagher
#36. Strider hovered over the scope and slammed his eye on it before jumping back with a hand over the squinting eye. That bloody thing is dangerous.
Tess Oliver
#37. Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
Thomas Hardy
#38. No one would ever find Tess Snow again. She no longer existed. I am Ami Esclave.
Pepper Winters
#39. I believe one has to get one's hand dirty or you're nothing but a hobbyist.
Tess Gerritsen
#40. Tie me, tease me, let your pleasure please me. Hurt me, love me, but please don't ever leave me ...
Pepper Winters
#41. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.
Tess Gerritsen
#42. Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?
Tess Gerritsen
#43. 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
#44. Tess," I say. "I'm going to head down to the water.I'll be back in a minute."
"You sure you can make it by yourself?" she asks.
"I'll be fine." I smile. "If you see me floating unconscious out to sea,though-by all means,come and get me.
Marie Lu
#45. 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
#46. The past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.
Tess Gallagher
#47. 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
#48. The cure for her happiness was not bad luck, but to make her happier inside. Esmeralda
Tess Uriza Holthe
#49. Sometimes you have to stop trying to control everything and let life happen the way it's supposed to, Tess. Even if it's not exactly the way you wanted.
But what if it's not even a little like you wanted?
Then you deal with it and keep going.
Lord, Cynthia
#50. Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.
Tess Gerritsen
#51. O, you have torn my life all to pieces ... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
Thomas Hardy
#52. 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
#53. ,you were the light of a warm, sunny day, Tess. Darla was the dead of a cold, dark fuckin' night" His face got close and his voice got low when he finished, "it felt good to feel the sun again.
Kristen Ashley
#54. 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
#56. He would be gone soon, and with all that had happened in Blackpool Cove, I could not afford to send a piece of my heart with him.
Tess Oliver
#58. One day, you'll fall for somebody. At first, you'll fight it, because you won't understand. But when you do, Tess, you'll know that he's the one
the one you would die for.
Jalpa Williby
#59. I'd say most of my songs I write from personal experience. When I feel like I don't have any inspiration in my personal life, I think about others that are close to me and maybe what they're going through or even just people I've come across, acquaintances.
Tess Henley
#60. Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and ends with them, your concern for their welfare is paramount over everything else and your life is scheduled around their needs.
Tess Daly
#61. 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
#62. I'm not saying that you think about it all the time. It just leaves you different than it found you.
Tess Callahan
#63. 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
#64. You don't get it, Tess. I can't have you.
J. Lynn
#65. My name is Tess Little. But everyone calls me Red.
Kate SeRine
#66. You need to start doing what's uncomfortable for you, April. Because your idea of what feels right took a left turn somewhere.
Tess Callahan
#67. And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it.
Tess Gerritsen
#68. So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love.
Tess Gerritsen
#69. He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me."
We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, "Forgive me.
Claudia Gray
#70. '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
#71. Take the road less travelled sometimes. And other times stick to the path that will lead you to success and a decent career." - Jack to Tess; ppg 117
Annabel Pitcher
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Everything makes sense when I'm with you, Tess. My life makes sense, after so many years of running scared in the dark. You are the light, the reason I live. I'm bonded to you deep, woman. For me, there will never be another.
Lara Adrian
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Because I'd rather fell guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear - Tess's Mother
Rosamund Lupton
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.
Tess Gerritsen
#82. It was barbaric. It was horrific. It was delicious.
Pepper Winters
#83. I've got to take a pee. Remember, don't open for anyone. Even if Charlie friggin' Hunnam shows up on his Harley with his hot little white sneakers, don't open the damn door.
Tess Oliver
#84. 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
#85. We'll tell the nurses she's a new student with an interest in nursing. They'll be charmed.'
Tess flips her braids over her should. 'I am particularly adorable today.
Jessica Spotswood
#86. 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
#87. I was having one of my wading through molasses mornings where I could feel myself moving and thinking and doing, but it was all happening in slow motion.
Tess Oliver
#88. I will take you from him, Scotlyn," he said with quiet confidence.
"I think about you every fucking minute of the day, and I will not let you slip out of my life. I will take you from him.
Tess Oliver
#89. The whole world isn't out to hurt you, Jane. - Dean
Because I don't let it - Jane
Tess Gerritsen
#90. What Aunt Tess loved to say was: Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up your pace.
Barbara Kingsolver
#91. Dixie Flynn may be the most kick-ass heroine ever created. Kudos to M.C. Grant for giving us the ultimate 'girl power' thriller."
- TESS GERRITSEN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILENT GIRL
M.C. Grant
#92. Now they were probably telling one another: Yeah, I knew something wasn't right. Everyone's brilliant in retrospect.
Tess Gerritsen
#93. 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
#94. The moment Tess walked into my life she owned me. I would never be free again. I never wanted to be free again. If Tess thought she'd leave me by killing herself, she'd hate me for eternity when I kept her alive.
Pepper Winters
#95. Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.
Tess Gerritsen
#96. I don't say what I'm thinking. I don't tell him how lucky he is, that he can just sit there and admit it, sheepish, but unashamed. Like it's his right. Like it's okay, because she's supposed to belong to someone like him, instead of someone like me.
Tess Sharpe
#97. Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl.
Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.
Steven James
#98. You ... you are amazing, Tess."
"No, I'm not. I just love you, Jace.
J. Lynn
#99. Esskay rested her head on Tess's knee, gazing into her eyes in the soulful way that meant "Pet me," unless there was food handy, in which case it translated to "Feed me.
Laura Lippman
#100. If everything were explained by science and logic, what a dull world it would be.
Tess Oliver
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