Quotes by 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 peop...”

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

“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.”

“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 ...”

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

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

“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 t...”

“Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge”

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

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

“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...”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.”

“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.”

“When what we believe weve mastered is no longer predictable were not fine. The world suddenly is a very scary place. It loses its charm.”

“Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.”

“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.”