251 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

Disrespect is a symptom of weakness, of smallness, of an existential problem. By acting rude to me he’s showing me what he really thinks of himself.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn’t it?

You can master your weather. You can make it what you want. You can have storms or sunshine. You can duck and hide or walk out in the open.

Our government spies and lies. Those trusted to uphold and enforce the law use it to their advantage instead.

A significant portion of the human race has no idea what it is like to be attached to short legs, and I am forever finding myself indignantly pumping along like a handcar in a world of express trains.

I’ve never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

Digital communication has begun to make me feel I’m moving faster than ever even as I lose the trusted navigational equipment I was born with. My own eyes. My own ears. My own sense of touch. I miss paper and pen. I miss face-to-face conversations. I worry we’re on a collision course with doubt and delusion on a galactic scale.

Strung himself up from the rafters in the barn,” she went on as we worked. “Was being treated for a drink problem and depression. More of the same. Unemployment, women, drugs. They.

When you look into the abyss, it also looks into you.