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21 " nothing like shooting a man while he's down "
― Patricia Cornwell
22 " I felt the emotion of the crime. It wasn't anger. It was worse than that. "
― Patricia Cornwell , Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
23 " nothing worse than someone who's stupid and arrogant and has power. "
― Patricia Cornwell , Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
24 " 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. "
― Patricia Cornwell , Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
25 " 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. "
26 " 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. "
― Patricia Cornwell , The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
27 " Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm. "
― Patricia Cornwell , The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
28 " We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.. "
29 " You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there. "
― Patricia Cornwell , Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19)
30 " And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone. "
― Patricia Cornwell , Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
31 " The world is full of people who mean no harm and cause a great deal of it. "
― Patricia Cornwell , From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
32 " Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets "
― Patricia Cornwell , Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)
33 " No, Lucy. Your mother doesn’t really love men. They are a symptom of her obsessive quest of finding somebody who will make her whole. She doesn’t understand that she has to make herself whole. "
― Patricia Cornwell , Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
34 " You know what the best security system is? Window shades. "
35 " The truth is none of us always does what’s right or fair. "
― Patricia Cornwell , Flesh and Blood (Kay Scarpetta, #22)
36 " being in love brings out both the best and the worst in us. One day we’re generous and sensitive to a fault, and the next we’re not fit to shoot. Our lives become lessons in extremes. "
37 " Blood squirted as his transected femoral artery haemorrhaged to the rhythm of his horrible heart.- From Potter's Field "
38 " You don’t get over it, I think. Some things you won’t get over, not ever, you can’t . . . "
― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)
39 " She can love one minute and feel nothing the next, not even anger or pain, because after a while those, too, will pass. "
40 " You have to live where you wake up, even if somebody else dreamed you there. "