Patricia Cornwell Quotes

I am a fan of Botox.

I've been stalked.

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

We ignore intuition at our peril,

broiling heat, and here I was standing out in the middle of it because he wouldn't leave me alone.

nothing like shooting a man while he's down

When you dine with the devil use a long spoon, and I've repeatedly preached that to him, too.

DEDICATION To Staci

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

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

Like every other mortal who has ever been touched by suicide, I had the fallacious belief that I could have done something to stop it.

You've been drawing from a well that you never knew was bottomless and you just found out the unlimited depth of inhumanity,

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

Some people simply want company.

Don't announce what you fear could happen or someone evil might make it come true.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

Yeah. You know what that sounds like. You'd know it if you

But caffeine, cigarettes and cholesterol, the grim reapers of the common man - God forbid I should give them up.

People who are unhappy in relationships carry about them a distinct air of discontent and isolation.

He believes that all kindnesses will be repaid. He also believes that evil will get its ugly reward,

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

When you are beaten and raped as a child, your life is murdered even if your body isn't.

been ignited by loose talk, by leaks," Amburgey went on, "the fact the city

I don't do things that are illegal.

The word need is never good. I hope you never use it when you're talking about me,

What the hell. You die. Everybody dies. So you die healthy. So what?

You don't get over it, I think. Some things you won't get over, not ever, you can't . . .

War has become our national industry, like automotives and steel and the railroads once were.

Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.

I don't believe for a minute that the Ripper killed only the prostitutes we hear about - five and only five.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

Time on Earth is an opportunity to become more highly evolved, and then people move on or cross over - a

Any place where they got to vote on whether English is the official language don't belong in the United States.

And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.

As was true with every powerful person I had known, and there were but a few, his greatness made him humble and kind.

It's not true that we are never given more than we can bear. Only it isn't given.

maybe it explains something to you," said marino, who always got impatient with lucy's computer talk. "but it don't explain shit to me.

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

When violence occurs anywhere, it is everybody's problem,

Gravity will get you. Life is inclined toward falling. Not standing or flying, indeed, barely sitting.

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.

importantly Lucy's past, and I envision

When an aircraft seems motionless, it's either heading directly toward you or directly away. Better know which it is or you're dead.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

You can master your weather. You can make it what you want. You can have storms or sunshine. You can duck and hide or walk out in the open.

the famous American actor Richard Mansfield

Nietzsche said: When you look into the abyss, it also looks into you.

At some level we intend everything we do. That's why it's extremely important to root out our intentions before they uproot us.

Tactical engagement principle number one is if you don't have a clear and decisive objective the operation becomes disconnected and unfocused.

To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.

When all else fails, I cook. Some

Anger helps nothing. What's done is done. Now we move on.

We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..

both of us. "Who can keep track?

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

Thoughts are odd misfires

aborigine, angry, beautiful, fiery, fearless, remorseless and untouchable, overly

When she gave you a meal, she gave you herself.

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

We rarely are conscious of those primitive anxieties that creep out from under reason. And the only way to banish them is to turn on all the lights.

That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

Everyone is doing forensics.

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

When terrorists find something that works they keep on doing it. It's predictable.

The body was not yet fully rigorous and was still slightly warm as I began swabbing any area that a washcloth might have missed. I

I like to get to bed with a clear head.

Maybe nothing phased her until she was beaten to death on her marble floor, and I envision a blitz attack.

He has Raynaud's syndrome

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

Predators watch their quarry. It starts with the eyes.

My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

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

Odors have their own story to tell and the secret is to block them out after they're no longer relevant.

Absolute power has corrupted and the absence of checks and balances seems complete.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

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

Most of what went wrong in the Ripper investigation was due to ignorance.

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

Phisoderm, not an inch spared, not the inside of my ears and nose,

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

And are they consistent with the injuries inflicted by the electric chair, with

Just as Jean-Baptiste can hear without ears, his father can become deaf at will.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

The next three days were typical for the holiday season. No one was in or returning telephone calls. Parking

Succinctly put, a crime scene is like an archaeology site. If an excavation is botched or bulldozed away, there's no going back.

on his lips. He's in jeans and loafers, a Red Sox windbreaker

Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.

I tended to hold love hostage in my heart because, if expressed, I feared it might abandon me as many people in my life had.

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

The beat of a butterfly wing causes a hurricane on another part of the planet.

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

Wit is the genius to perceive and the metaphor to express.' Or