Tess Gerritsen

Richard has fallen deeply asleep. How can he do that, just drop off so peacefully when I feel I’m about to shatter?

If only life were like a mathematical formula, with just one answer.

In this place where I am dying, there is so much life

Death was a rock star who always drew an audience.

At four years old, she’s still fearless because we have lied to her. We’ve told her the world is a place of peace and light and she does not know that monsters are real.

bullet severed his spinal cord, and now he’s trapped in a place he’ll never escape—his own body.

You can’t force a person to be brave if they don’t already have it in them. I’m alive merely because I was too terrified to die, which makes me a coward, really.

The trouble is, she tries so hard to make everyone else happy, she forgets all about herself.”

“The same thing I did. Hunt down the monster who’s been chasing you in your dreams. Cut him to pieces and bury him. Then, and only then, will you sleep soundly again.”

In the face of danger, there’s no one more desirable than the protector