The Sinner Quotes

“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“You don't have to die to go to hell.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“No man easily admits that he is afraid.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“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, The Sinner

“Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Life is a series of complications. We have to deal with each one as it comes.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“what she did believe in was the power of remembrance. Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Niektórych płomieni nie da się rozniecić na nowo. Lepiej nie próbować.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“— To brzmi jak wypowiedzenie wojny.
— Nie, to tylko logika. Staram się być pragmatyczna.
— I próbujesz się zabezpieczyć.
— A nie powinnam?
— Świat się nie sprzysiągł, żeby cię skrzywdzić, Jane.
—Bo na to nie pozwalam.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“— Przez całe życie — ciągnęła Mary Clement — coś nas pociąga. Pokusy, oczywiście, się zmieniają. W młodości są nimi przystojni chłopcy, potem słodycze i jedzenie. A kiedy jest się już starym i zmęczonym, pragnie się pospać rano godzinę dłużej. Tyle mamy drobnych pocus i jesteśmy na nie narażone jak wszyscy, tyle że nie wolno nam się do tego przyznawać. Nasze śluby wyróżniają nas spośród innych. Noszenie welonu może dawać radość, doktor Isles. Ale doskonałość jest ciężarem, którego żadna z nas nie potrafi udźwignąć.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Sometimes, thought Maura, 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 guarantees, no certainties”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Sometimes, thought Maura, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance—that’s all it can really”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Місце смерті має свою особливу силу. Таке місце зберігає пам’ять про те, що сталося, ще довго після того, як тіло виносять, а кров змивають. Воно затримує відгомін криків, береже запах страху. І, наче чорна діра, засмоктує у свій вир увагу живих, які не можуть відвернутися, не можуть опиратися погляду в пекло.”
― Тесс Ґеррітсен, Грішна

“Then she walked out of his church, and back into her own world.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“was more than their family could ever eat, but that was the point; an abundance of both food and love.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Something as deeply personal as faith should not be subjected to another person’s contempt.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it’s always such a surprise.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“And let's be honest. Sometimes, Jane, you can be a real bitch. - Agent Gabriel Dean”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“There are far scarier things in this world than dead bodies.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“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”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner