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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.
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humanity
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Tess Gerritsen |
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79eddbc
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Only the forgotten are truly dead.
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the-sinner
tess-gerritsen
forgotten
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Tess Gerritsen |
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02df7f7
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The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
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life
love
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Tess Gerritsen |
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1476e94
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The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.
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living
death
life
the-sinner
tess-gerritsen
hurt
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Tess Gerritsen |
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117475c
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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.
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immune
lightning
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Tess Gerritsen |
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82ae69c
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Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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91cb192
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Everything's a gamble, love most of all.
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love
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Tess Gerritsen |
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03af5df
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You don't have to die to go to hell.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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131fe2b
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The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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36c3be0
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We are all descended from monsters.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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808be32
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That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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9900e67
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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.
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meaning
reality
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Tess Gerritsen |
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8fb7b2d
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Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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b958cd8
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The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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db301a6
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There is honor between bitches
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Tess Gerritsen |
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0bc2ed5
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She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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cf106d5
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The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
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holidays
tess-gerritsen
materialism
gifts
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Tess Gerritsen |
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9df04bb
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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.
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heaven
hope
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Tess Gerritsen |
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9263f73
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Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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283369f
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he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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0ed7ad7
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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5113e65
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We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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5838fa6
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Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.
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life
rizzoli-and-isles
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Tess Gerritsen |
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8ce4def
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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..
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autopsy
dead-people
the-sinner
the-sixth-sense
tess-gerritsen
meat
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Tess Gerritsen |
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abff146
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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.
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life
mistakes
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Tess Gerritsen |
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02dab36
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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0f364ac
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No man easily admits that he is afraid.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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972bc88
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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.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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837f12e
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We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles
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Tess Gerritsen |
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ef4ee0c
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Is this all we are? A necklace of chemicals? Where, in the double helix, does the soul lie?
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Tess Gerritsen |
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46e3a28
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Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They're the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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8d2085d
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Maybe it's because I can't have him that I feel safe wanting him. He's beyond my reach, so he won't hurt me.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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1982bee
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Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every ..
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Tess Gerritsen |
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5024129
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She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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41abbd3
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My name is Mila, and this is my journey. There are so many places where I could begin the story. I could start in the town where I grew up, in Kryvicy, on the banks of the Servac River, in the district of Miadziel. I could begin when I was eight years old, on the day my mother died, or when I was twelve, and my father fell beneath the wheels of the neighbour's truck. But I think I should begin my story here, in the Mexican desert, so far fr..
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Tess Gerritsen |
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bed3941
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Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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a354e21
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So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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ecab6a0
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When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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64f7586
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Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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981f5c0
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Charles threw down the knife. Its thud was lost in the high-spirited bedlam of young men let loose upon a task so gruesome, the only sane response was perverse frivolity.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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6fc89e9
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She pressed her fingers to the woman's neck and felt icy skin. Bending close to the lips, she waited for the whisper of a breath, the faintest puff of air against her cheek. The corpse opened its eyes.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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6130966
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That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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3af5e5c
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Deves prestar sempre atencao aos teus sonhos, ensinara-lhe a mae. Sao vozes que te dizem o que ja sabes, sussurrando-te conselhos que ainda nao seguiste.
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Tess Gerritsen |
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d656a01
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Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles
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Tess Gerritsen |