251 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

Technology made everything better for a while and now it seems life is circling back around to the dark ages.

Some people simply want company.

Most of what went wrong in the Ripper investigation was due to ignorance.

I’ve always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

Predators watch their quarry. It starts with the eyes.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. ELIOT, The Waste Land, 1922.

Her case in particular haunts me. Despite decades of autopsies and crime scenes, I can honestly say I’ve never encountered the extreme brutality shown in the only existing scene photographs from the Ripper case.

Charisma is something you have or you don’t have. You can’t manufacture it. You can’t. She didn’t try. It just was. – Matt Pettersen.

Gravity will get you. Life is inclined toward falling. Not standing or flying, indeed, barely sitting.