251 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

It’s not true that we are never given more than we can bear. Only it isn’t given. It simply happens.

Legend has it that Walter was taking a walk with his father one day and passed by a church where Oswald directed his young son’s attention to a memorial. “There’s a name you will never remember,” Oswald commented as he kept walking. Walter paused to read:.

And let me tell you another thing,” Marino threw back at.

Charity is giving to someone what he needs versus what you want to give him.

People don’t really know what anything is really like until it really happens to them.

I won’t put myself in a position where I’m vulnerable.

We rarely are conscious of those primitive anxieties that creep out from under reason. And the only way to banish them is to turn on all the lights.

Ms. Fuller explained to me that the reason Sickert gave Ms. Pash for his divulging such a fantastic and shocking story was he wanted the truth “known but not during his lifetime.” To prove his point, Sickert supposedly showed Ms. Pash a number of “murder paintings that he later burned,” Ms. Fuller told me.

Some people should never be gone, and those that should hang around forever.