Home > Work > Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)

Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18) QUOTES

Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18) QUOTES

1 " War has become our national industry, like automotives and steel and the railroads once were. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)

2 " push buttons to turn on the flush-mount lighting built "

― Patricia Cornwell , Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)

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

― Patricia Cornwell , Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)

4 " This is what we’re up against, Kay,” Briggs says. “Our brave new world, what I call neuroterrorism, what the Pentagon is calling it, the big fear. Make us crazy and you win. Make us crazy enough and we’ll kill ourselves, saving the bad guys the trouble. In Afghanistan, give our troops opium, give them benzodiazepines, give them hallucinogenics, something to take the edge off their boredom, and then see what happens when they climb into their choppers and fighter jets and tanks and Humvees. See what happens when they come home addicts, come home deranged. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)

5 " a man shouldn’t tell a woman what to wear unless he’s Ralph Lauren. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)

6 " we are instructed by what is around us if we are humble and quiet and have courage. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)

7 " whatever can be used for good most assuredly will be used for evil. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)

8 " The reason you can’t have a dog is the same reason it’s always been a bad idea,” Benton’s voice says from the dark front seat. “Your IQ drops about fifty points. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)

9 " As is true with everything else, whatever can be used for good most assuredly will be used for evil. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)