Tess Gerritsen

Motherhood didn’t make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

The CT tech laughed. “Your mummy’s never been a mommy.”

“Perhaps that’s the point of the story: that some who commit evil never face justice.”

The point is, men get obsessed. A guy will cling to a particular woman for years.” She added, quietly: “Even a woman who doesn’t love him

Some people just can’t move on,” she said, “and they waste their lives waiting for someone they can’t have

Sometimes, thought Jane, the person who could make you happiest is the one you overlook, the one who waits patiently in the wings.

There is no such thing as a sixth sense that tells us when others are staring at us. We don’t feel the stalker’s gaze on our backs; only at the instant when he makes his move do we realize he’s there

I’ll take care of you.

Isn’t that what we all want?

She did not trust her own judgment when it came to men. The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all

Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child’s flesh and blood.