“I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“Perhaps my greatest shame was that I could not show what I should, and I worried no one would ever know how much I cared. Crows”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“I tended to hold love hostage in my heart because, if expressed, I feared it might abandon me as many people in my life had.”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“We rarely are conscious of those primitive anxieties that creep out from under reason. And the only way to banish them is to turn on all the lights.”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“as was true with every powerful person I had known, and there were but a few, his greatness made him humble and kind.”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“Το πραγματικό μέτρο της ανθρώπινης φύσης είναι ο τρόπος με τον οποίο φέρεται κανείς σε άτομα σαν κι αυτήν σε στιγμές που δεν τον βλέπει κανείς.”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“it's hard as hell to get politicians excited about what we do out here, or about what you do, kay."
"the problem is, the dead don't vote," i said.
"i've heard of cases where they did.”
― Patricia Cornwell, quote from The Body Farm
“Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.
In following him I follow but myself;
Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
But seeming so for my peculiar end.
For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, ’tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at. I am not what I am”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Othello
“Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music...”
― Anne Rice, quote from The Vampire Lestat
“It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?”
― Christopher Moore, quote from Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.”
― Ki Longfellow, quote from Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria
“It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Once and Future King
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