251 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

I intended to beat down any lingering resistance with bluntness.

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 same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Dorothy is predictable. She does the same thing repeatedly and expects not a different result but the same one she got the last time she did whatever she wants with little regard for anyone else. So maybe she's the sane one....

Somewhere deep within the emptiness of her eyes was a glint of grief, of rage.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing when you’re cocky.

I felt the emotion of the crime. It wasn't anger. It was worse than that.

I was reminded of the old pain, a pain once so intense it was physical.

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

he who survives writes the rules.