Patricia Cornwell Quotes

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

~ Patricia Cornwell

If you can create a weapon that causes enough fear the fear itself can cause damage that's as paralyzing and destructive as any physical device like a bomb or a laser gun. Fear can make decent people behave irrationally and violently.

~ Patricia Cornwell

The public is blaming the city officials, who in turn have to find someone else to blame. It's the nature of the beast. If the police, the politicians, can pass the buck on down the line, they will.

~ Patricia Cornwell

Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm. I try to brush it off as I've brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father when I was young, as I've brushed off so much since Benton has known me.

~ Patricia Cornwell

I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely

~ Patricia Cornwell

I didn't know what I wanted. Maybe I never had. The emotional distance was never worth the togetherness, and yet I didn't learn. Nothing had changed. Had he reached for me, I would have forgotten to behave sensibly. Desire has no reason, and the need for intimacy had never stopped. I had not conjured up the images in years, his lips on mine, his hands, the urgency of our hunger. Now I was tormented by the memories.

~ Patricia Cornwell

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

~ Patricia Cornwell

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

~ Patricia Cornwell

Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.

~ Patricia Cornwell

A part of me expects more of my only sister....Dorothy has always been exactly who she is, and for me to hope for anything better reminds me of a quote attributed to Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Dorothy is predictable. She does the same thing repeatedly and expects not a different result but the same one she got the last time she did whatever she wants with little regard for anyone else. So maybe she's the sane one....

~ Patricia Cornwell

I was a small insect faced with a formidable male network web in which I might be ensnared but never a part.

~ Patricia Cornwell

Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past.

~ Patricia Cornwell

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

~ Patricia Cornwell

rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.

~ Patricia Cornwell

When what we believe we’ve mastered is no longer predictable we’re not fine. The world suddenly is a very scary place. It loses its charm.

~ Patricia Cornwell

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

~ Patricia Cornwell

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

~ Patricia Cornwell

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

~ Patricia Cornwell

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

~ Patricia Cornwell