Black Notice Quotes

“And let me tell you another thing,” Marino threw back at”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“It’s a her,” I answered. “Sometimes the hers are worse than hims”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Whenever politics and votes are involved—” “Power,” Talley cut in. “Corruption. Politics and criminal investigation should never be in the same room.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Nietzsche was right,” I muttered in a defeated way. “Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that’s who you become most like.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“I had never really hated anyone before. Hate was poison. I had always resisted it. To hate was to lose, and it was all I could do right now to resist the heat of its flames.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“You can never really cover up an old tattoo,” he resumed. “But if you know what you’re doing, you can work over and around it so the eye is taken away from it. That’s the trick. I guess you could almost call it an optical illusion.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Do you know what suicide is?” He stared wide-eyed at me. “It’s getting in the last pissed-off word. It’s a big so there,” I said.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Cruelty thrives on what it perceives as weakness,” I went on.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Don’t get too carried away by all those little goblins that will rise up in your head if you let them. I have a firm belief about not giving a life to things, you know. The old bit about a self-fulfilled prophecy.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Snow and tropical sunshine were antidepressants for me.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Jesus Christ,” he said with disgust. “Sometimes I think the Internet’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to us.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Sometimes I think the Internet’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to us.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Very few people knew her, even if they thought they did.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Mun-chausen syndrome,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“just don’t want to be so afraid of death.” “I don’t have a magic formula,” I said, getting up. “Except you learn not to think too much.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Bon voyage, le loup-garou,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“I told them I’d go get it. Bunch of French sons of bitches. If people would speak English like they’re supposed to, this kinda shit wouldn’t happen.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“When you die, your body quits making adenosine triphosphate. That’s why you get stiff,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“let me paint for you the portrait of tragedy, of violence, that those untouched by it never see,” he said. “It has a life of its own. It continues its rampage, although with more stealth and with less visible wounds as time moves on.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Point is, some of this is being smuggled piecemeal by container ships that have no idea,” she went on. “Take the port in L.A. It unloads one cargo container every one and a half minutes. No way anybody can search all that.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Benton and I were always squabbling about my house, my shit. My perfectly appointed, perfectly arranged shit.” My voice rose as grief and fury flared up higher than before. “If he rearranged or put something in the wrong drawer . . . That’s what happens when you hit middle age and have lived alone and had everything your own goddamn way.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Despite all I knew about how the body worked, I didn’t understand—not really—how grief could begin in the brain and spread through the body like a systemic infection, eroding and throbbing, inflaming and numbing, and ultimately destroying careers and families, or in some sad cases, a person’s physical life.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“A loup-garou is a werewolf,” I told him.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“ignoring”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“I’ve known cops, agents like that,” he said. “They always have justifiable reasons for judicial homicide, but if you look hard at it, you begin to get the drift that they subconsciously set things up to go bad. They thrive on it.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“We're special. We're alone and we rarely think it's because we're special. We just think there's something wrong with us.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“sabotage takes too much time.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“i stay away from red meat as much as possible." bray switched conversational lanes. "but their fish is very good."
"that’s like going to a whorehouse and playing solitaire," marino remarked.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“Grief held on. It would not let go of loss, because to do that was to accept it. I told that to grieving families and friends all the time.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice

“More to the point, odors are important. They have their own story to tell. A sweet smell might point at ethchlorvynol, while chloral hydrate smells like pears. Both might make me wonder about an overdose of hypnotics, while a hint of garlic might point at arsenic. Phenols and nitrobenzene bring to mind ether and shoe polish respectively, and ethylene glycol smells exactly like antifreeze because that’s exactly what it is. Isolating potentially significant smells from the awful stench of dirty bodies and rotting flesh is rather much like archaeology. You focus on what you are there to find and not on the miserable conditions around it.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Black Notice