Tess Gerritsen Quotes

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

It's unconditional love with your kids.

If you have kids, you feel everything stronger. It's like someone turning the lights on in your inner room.

My ex-husband is my family.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Children leave. And parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father. And he will always leave a light on for you.

The bond between parent and child is chemical, fierce, and inexplicable, even if that parent is a sworn killer. This connection cannot be measured; it at once more subtle and more powerful than science.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures.... Only man stands with his children from first to last, from birth to death, and to the grave.

In my mind, I was still Chimere's father. I was there when he was born. I saw him when he first came out. I held him. He was my kid.

I want to see my niece and nephew grow up, to see their children... I get crazy at the idea that a time will come when I won't see Daniel and Allegra anymore.

Woody Allen - legally, ethically, personally - was absolutely a father in our family.

Having a son has made it all the more important for me to stay in close contact with my family in Texas and Arkansas, whom I know full well voted for Trump. Though I didn't, and have deep problems with this administration and many of them don't. But I'm not going to let that cut the tie from my son to his own history and family.

My family still lives in Chicago: my mother, my sister, my nephew, my family is there. So even though I am not living there, I feel very close to it, and I visit very often.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.