
The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
—Vladimir Nabokov

The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
—Vladimir Nabokov

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.
― Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman


“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.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
– Michael Connelly