The Mephisto Club Quotes

“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, The Mephisto Club

“You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Friendships are broken all the time. So are hearts.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“İtibar kırılgan bir şeydir; bir ince çatlak onu paramparça eder.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Her attention was fixed so completely on Jane that she did not see her own death hurtling toward her head. The poker slammed into Edwina’s skull, and Lily felt the crack of crushing bone, transmitted straight to her hand through wrought iron. Edwina dropped to the floor without uttering a sound. Lily lost her grip, and the falling poker clanged as it hit wood. She stared down at what she had just done. At Edwina’s head, the skull caved in. At the blood, flowing like a black river. And suddenly the room darkened, and her legs wobbled out from beneath her. She slid to the floor, landing on her rump. She dropped her head in her lap and could feel nothing: no pain, no sensation at all in her limbs. She was floating disembodied on the edge of blackness.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Kalp meselelerinde, ıstırap refakat bulmaya can atar.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Then she turned to follow them, and the three demon hunters walked together down the hill.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“I hate it when a woman lets me down. Gives us all a bad name.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire’?”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Here were the real wages of sin. Not hellfire and damnation, but heartbreak.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“her beam revealing ancient brick walls and the faint glimmer”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“En tatmin edici ödül beklemeye mecbur kaldığındır.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“The whirl of images refused to remain still. The flames. Edwina. The spreading pool of Dominic’s blood, glistening in the firelight.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“You starve Dad a few days, he'll know how to cook, too.

No, he wouldn't. He'd just waste away at the dining table, waiting for dinner to float in all by itself.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Hell, there are times when I'd like to run away from my family.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Angela Rizzoli's worst fear was that someone, someday, would leave her house hungry.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“My job was to take care of that man, and I've got nothing to show for it. I might as well do the same work and get paid.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“I came for midnight Mass, didn't I?"

He gave a weary laugh, "Everyone shows up at Christmas. Even the ones who don't believe.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“You're asking me to explain evil.

Yes.

I can't. Neither can science. It just is.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“We share a belief that evil isn't just a concept. It's real, and it has a physical presence. It has a face." He paused. "At some time in our lives, we've each seen it in the flesh.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“We don't inherit our parents' sins. Or their virtues.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Sed libera nos a malo.

Latin. She frowned at him.

Deliver us from evil.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“If one believes in the light, one has to believe in the darkness as well.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Every culture has its own ideas of what the Devil looks like. There's only one thing that almost all cultures, dating back to the most primitive tribes, agree on: the Devil actually exists.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Hell calls to Hell sounds ominous enough.

Abyssus abyssum invocat is a saying that dates back at least a thousand years. It means "One evil deed leads to another.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“We’re not trying to mess”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club