Patricia Cornwell Quotes

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• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at…
• Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
• I refuse to sit on my laurels.
• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
• In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
• Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
• Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
• But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
• First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
• I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
• 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 deal…
• To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.
• If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
• Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
• I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
• I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
• I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
• I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

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