Best Tess Gerritsen Quotes
- Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go. Depends
- That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. Adrenaline
- There is honor between bitches Bitches
- Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No… All
- The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain. Feeling
- One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk. Beside
- 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… Borders
- My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply… Books
- My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors. Become Doctors
- I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on… Actually Happens
- 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… Age
- I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what… Explain
- In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at… All
- I organise jam sessions every month. We have an open session, so everyone knows about it, and we can get as many as 30 people… All
- My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties,… American
- 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… Ancient
- 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… Approach
- 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… Always Think