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.

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

so much of what we know as "fact" in life is, in truth, nothing more than propaganda or a well-meant reflection on how events and people are perceived by those with a bias and poor vision.

I was a small insect faced with a formidable male network web in which I might be ensnared but never a part.

rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.

. . . she was a tabula rasa when it came to appropriate behavior. To say Lucy was difficult is like saying lightening is hazardous. It's a statement of fact that will always be a given.

franklin," she said sternly, "you know your daddy told you not to play with matches!""no he didn’t," franklin countered. "he told me not to let him catch me playing with matches. and I’m not going to let him catch me.

I was consumed, too, not by the dying but by the dead.

nothing worse than someone who's stupid and arrogant and has power.