Patricia Cornwell Quotes

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.

rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

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

A part of me expects more of my only sister....Dorothy has always been exactly who she is, and for me to hope for anything better reminds me of a quote attributed to Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Dorothy is predictable. She does the same thing repeatedly and expects not a different result but the same one she got the last time she did whatever she wants with little regard for anyone else. So maybe she's the sane one....

Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge