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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) QUOTES

Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) QUOTES

1 " The public is blaming the city officials, who in turn have to find someone else to blame. It's the nature of the beast. If the police, the politicians, can pass the buck on down the line, they will. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

2 " Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

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

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

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

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

5 " He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

6 " The air was clear and pleasantly warm, perfect for convertibles or windows rolled down. I was driving with my doors locked, my windows shut, and the fan on low. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

7 " The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

8 " You artists think you’re the only ones who can relate to these things. Many of us have the same feelings, the same emptiness, the same loneliness. But we don’t have the tools to verbalize them. So we carry on, we struggle. Feelings are feelings. I think people’s feelings are pretty much the same all over the world. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

9 " But caffeine, cigarettes and cholesterol, the grim reapers of the common man - God forbid I should give them up. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

10 " What the hell. You die. Everybody dies. So you die healthy. So what? "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

11 " Isolation is the cruelest of punishments, and it had never occurred to me that I was something less than human because I wasn’t a man. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

12 " I disagreed. Some people feel things more deeply than others, and some people feel things the rest of us don’t. This is what causes isolation, the sense of being apart, different "

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13 " Crime reporting was aggressive in Richmond, an old Virginia city of 220,000, which last year was listed by the FBI as having the second-highest homicide rate per capita in the United States. It wasn’t uncommon for forensic pathologists from the British Commonwealth to spend a month at my office to learn more about gunshot wounds. It wasn’t uncommon for career cops like Pete Marino to leave the madness of New York or Chicago only to find Richmond was worse. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

14 " Charisma is something you have or you don't have. You can't manufacture it. You can't. She didn't try. It just was. - Matt Pettersen "

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15 " All this when I know human relationships are not founded on reason any more than my roses are fertilized with debate. I know seeking asylum behind the wall of intellect and rationality is a selfish retreating into self-protectiveness at the expense of another's well-being. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

16 " When all else fails, I cook. Some "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

17 " It was raining in Richmond on Friday, June 6. "

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18 " I didn’t want her to be like me, robbed of innocence and idealism, baptized in the bloody waters of randomness and cruelty, the fabric of trust forever torn. "

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19 " been ignited by loose talk, by leaks,” Amburgey went on, “the fact the city "

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20 " People often say they don't dream, when it's more accurate to say that they don't remember their dreams. It gets under our skin, Kay. All of it does. We just manage to cage in most of the emotions so they don't devour us. "

― , Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)