251 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

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

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

If you have enough bad things happen to you in life, others begin to privately question if you invite them, are a magnet that attracts misfortune or danger or dysfunction.

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

I’m very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

The dead have never bothered me. It’s the living that I fear.

For that matter I didn’t understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give voice to such skepticisms, and when asked if I was a Yankee I said I didn’t follow baseball closely. That usually shut the person up.

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.

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