The Surgeon Quotes

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“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, The Surgeon

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“There's nothing as boring as perfection”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“Twenty years of marriage, with all its countless memories. The whispers late at night, the private jokes, the history. Yes, the history. A marriage is made up of such little things as burned suppers and midnight swims, yet it’s those little things that bind two lives into one. They had been young together, and together they had grown into middle age. No woman but Mary could own his past. It was his future that lay unclaimed.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“As the lamb is blessed, so is the lion. So is the hunter.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“There’s a saying among geographic profilers: Where we go depends upon what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“If only by DNA, Amalthea Lank was her mother.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“As a child I tortured no animals, set no fires, and I never wet my bed. I attended church. I was polite to my elders. I wore sunscreen. I am as sane as they are, and they know this. It is only my fantasies that set me apart,”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“When at last he stepped out of his car at Pilgrim Hospital, he could walk with the sure step of a man who knows he has made the right decision.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“Today such self-mutilation would be called sick and grotesque, the hallmark of insanity.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“Ґвалтівник ніколи не зникне з вашого життя. До кінця життя ви належите йому.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“Зло не помираю. Ніколи. Воно лише міняє обличчя, міняє імена. Те, що воно торкнулося нас одного разу, не означає, що воно не скривдить нас ще раз. Блискавка може двічі вдаряти в те саме місце”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“In Boston, you knew you were alive if only because you were so irritated. Here, nothing seemed in focus. He saw Savannah as though through gauze, a city of genteel smiles and sleepy voices, and he wondered what darkness lay hidden from view.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

“He drove east toward Boston with his window open, and the air blowing in felt cooler than it had in weeks. A Canadian front had rolled in during the night, and on this crisp morning the city smelled clean, almost pure. He thought of Mary, his own sweet Mary, and of all the ties that would forever bind him to her. Twenty years of marriage, with all its countless memories. The whispers late at night, the private jokes, the history. Yes, the history. A marriage is made up of such little things as burned suppers and midnight swims, yet it’s those little things that bind two lives into one. They had been young together, and together they had grown into middle age. No woman but Mary could own his past”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

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― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

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― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon