Tess Gerritsen

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Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen, an American novelist and retired general physician.

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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.

—Tess Gerritsen in The Surgeon

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The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

—Tess Gerritsen in The Surgeon

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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.

—Tess Gerritsen in Last to Die

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So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love.

—Tess Gerritsen in Harvest

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