Tess Gerritsen Quotes

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.

I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

I've always kind of gone with my heart.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

First with the head, then with the heart.