251 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 people behave irrationally and violently.

You can never be real sure who’s all right and who ain’t... It’s real hard to know these days, that’s for damn sure.

Work and play with them but never show your underbelly, he would say. And for God’s sake keep your knickers on, Kay, or you’ll find out the hard way it’s a man’s world.

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

People often say they don’t dream, when it’s more accurate to say that they don’t remember their dreams. It gets under our skin, Kay. All of it does. We just manage to cage in most of the emotions so they don’t devour us.

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

If you’re never an original thinker how can you possibly get in trouble? If you’re banal and unoriginal enough you’ll get promoted.” We.

Io non volevo vivere la mia vita con la paura del male.

Like most things in life, it’s all about timing.