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

—Tess Gerritsen in Harvest

love time impermanence

About Tess Gerritsen

Portrait of Tess Gerritsen

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

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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

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

—Tess Gerritsen in 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 in The Surgeon

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I've wasted a lot of time in my life. I've thought too much about what people will say or what they're gonna think. And sometimes it's over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn't good enough.

—Julie Murphy in Dumplin

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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

—George Bernard Shaw

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… gateway of being, let me awaken, dawning,/ let me see the countenance of this day,/ let me see the countenance of this night,/ all things communicate and are transfigured,/ arch of blood, gateway of hearts beating,/ take me to the far side of this night,/ where I am you are us, take me to/ the homeland of the interwoven pronouns.

—Octavio Paz in Sunstone

time homeland tranformation

Time does not heal all wounds. Some pain becomes part of who you are.

—David R. Dow in Things I've Learned from Dying

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

—Marvin Minsky

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