Blood squirted as his transected femoral artery…

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

— Patricia Cornwell

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

— Patricia Cornwell

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

— Patricia Cornwell

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was…

— Patricia Cornwell

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

— Patricia Cornwell

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

— Patricia Cornwell

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

— Patricia Cornwell

“People don’t really know what anything is really like until it really happens to them.”

— Patricia Cornwell

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

— Patricia Cornwell

I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

— Patricia Cornwell

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

— Patricia Cornwell

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

— Patricia Cornwell

“Grief held on. It would not let go of loss, because to do that was to accept it. I told that to grieving families…

— Patricia Cornwell

“Desire has no reason, and the need for intimacy had never stopped. I had not conjured up the images in years, his lips on…

— Patricia Cornwell

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

— Patricia Cornwell