“I intended to beat down any lingering resistance with bluntness.”
Source: Body of Evidence
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Source: Chaos
Source: Isle of Dogs
“We lie to children even though we didn't believe the lies we were told when we were their age.”
Source: Postmortem
Source: Blow Fly
Source: Postmortem
“The dead have never bothered me. It is the living I fear.”
Source: Postmortem
“Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.”
Source: Body of Evidence
Source: Postmortem
Source: Body of Evidence
“Somewhere deep within the emptiness of her eyes was a glint of grief, of rage.”
Source: Postmortem
Source: Dust
Source: Depraved Heart
“Are you so goddamn sure of yourself that you're stupid? How can anyone so smart be so stupid?”
Source: Blow Fly
Source: Black Notice
Source: Book of the Dead
“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
Source: Cause of Death
Source: Cause of Death
“I was reminded of the old pain, a pain once so intense it was physical.”
Source: Body of Evidence
Source: The Last Precinct: Scarpetta
“You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.”
Source: Red Mist
“Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.”
“rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.”
Source: Four Scarpetta Novels
“Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.”
Source: The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5
“Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.”
Source: The Body Farm
“Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.”
Source: The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5
“The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.”
“Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?”
Source: The Scarpetta Collection Volume I: Postmortem and Body of Evidence
“Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge”
Source: Postmortem
“And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.”
“You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.”
Source: Postmortem
“We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.”
Source: The Last Precinct: Scarpetta
Source: From Potter's Field
“I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.”
“Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets”
Source: Patricia Cornwell FIVE SCARPETTA NOVELS
“I refuse to sit on my laurels.”
Source: Dust
“I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.”