The dead do not hurt you, only the living do.

~ Tess Gerritsen

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But something-luck, fate, conspiracy, whatever you want to call it-has thrown us together. He leaned forward, his gaze never leaving her face. Of all the crazy places in the world, here we are, at the same table, in the same dirty Vietnamese cafe. And... He paused, his brown eyes warm, his crooked smile a fleeting glimmer in his seriousness. I'm beginning to think it's time we gave in and followed this crazy script. Time we followed our instincts.

~ Tess Gerritsen

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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.

~ Tess Gerritsen

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Only the forgotten are truly dead.

~ Tess Gerritsen

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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 even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.

~ Tess Gerritsen

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