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Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21) QUOTES

Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21) QUOTES

1 " When what we believe we’ve mastered is no longer predictable we’re not fine. The world suddenly is a very scary place. It loses its charm. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

2 " Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm." I try to brush it off as I've brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father when I was young, as I've brushed off so much since Benton has known me. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

3 " 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)

4 " She can love one minute and feel nothing the next, not even anger or pain, because after a while those, too, will pass. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

5 " There’s a penalty for trying to do what’s right. The dark forces don’t like it, and stress will make you sick. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

6 " When you dine with the devil use a long spoon, and I’ve repeatedly preached that to him, too. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

7 " People fail, everything fails, the magic we’re born believing in and working for and then doubting and finally fearing eventually rusts, rots, fades, breaks down, withers, dies, and turns to dust, and for me the response is always the same. I clean up. It’s what I do and "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

8 " That’s one of the perks if you’re sick. You already feel bad enough and then people make you feel worse because they don’t want to bother you. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

9 " Hate makes you stupid. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

10 " Then I will myself to feel nothing at all. It’s not helpful to react the way a normal person would. I banish what will interfere with my clinical discipline and reason, I run it off and far away from me. After all these years I’m good at emptying myself out. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

11 " The abuse of power, Benton says. It all comes back to that. We want to be like God. If we can’t create, we’ll destroy, and once we’ve done it, once is not enough. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

12 " When you dine with the devil use a long spoon, "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

13 " The word need is never good. I hope you never use it when you’re talking about me, "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

14 " A dramatic public display, Kay. The dam began to crumble with Columbine. It’s not new, just the classification is. People have become addicted to attention, to fame. Profoundly disturbed individuals will kill and die for it. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

15 " but those days of being too terrified to move or breathe were left behind in my childhood. I’ve been through too much and it has hardened some primal part of me that no longer panics. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

16 " both of us. “Who can keep track? "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

17 " some sort of psychopath, like a serial killer. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

18 " If my wish was my reality, Kay, I’d be sitting in the backyard in the sun, peeling an orange. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

19 " I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. ELIOT, The Waste Land, 1922 "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)

20 " You know what Nietzsche said. Be careful who you pick as an enemy because that’s who you become most like. "

― Patricia Cornwell , Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)