“ 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
“ 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 didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is. Patricia Cornwell
“ I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology it's solved by people. 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
“ 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
“ 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 b… 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… 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
“ I was a small insect faced with a formidable male network web in which I might be ensnared but never a part. 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 sa… Patricia Cornwell
“ Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness. 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
“ 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 bru… Patricia Cornwell
