251 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to mania, from depression to tranquility and beneath it all, excitement fizzes as if my blood is filled with gas.

there are no more questions when people already have the answers.

point is, he wants to hurt you, doc, and he's already trying hard. one way or another he's going to screw you, if he can.""he can wait in line with all the other people who want to.

i stay away from red meat as much as possible." bray switched conversational lanes. "but their fish is very good.""that’s like going to a whorehouse and playing solitaire," marino remarked.

maybe it explains something to you," said marino, who always got impatient with lucy's computer talk. "but it don't explain shit to me.

-it's the d-isomer of a compound, the name of which won't mean anything to you--oh, yeah? how do you know it won't mean nothing to me?-three-methoxy-n-methylmorphinan-you're right. don't mean a dam thing to me

-it's the d-isomer of a compound, the name of which won't mean anything to you--oh, yeah? how do you know it won't mean nothing to me?-three-methoxy-n-methylmorphinan-you're right. don't mean a damn thing to me

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.