251 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

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

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

Then I will myself to feel nothing at all. It’s not helpful to react the way a normal person would. I banish what will interfere with my clinical discipline and reason, I run it off and far away from me. After all these years I’m good at emptying myself out.

Gordian knot, a knot impossible to unravel, and Alexander the Great solved the problem by cutting through it with his sword, in other words by cheating.

Serenity comes from knowing what you can and can’t change,” Nancy.

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.

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

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

When all else fails, I cook. Some.