The Body Farm Quotes

“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, The Body Farm

“Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm

“Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.”
― Patricia Cornwell, 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, 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, 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, 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.”
― Patricia Cornwell, 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, 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, The Body Farm

“Women psychopaths don’t rape and strangle people. They like poisons. They like to smother people who can’t defend themselves because they’re either too young or too old or incapacitated for some other reason. The fantasies are different because women are different from men.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm

“In fact, you’re anything but stupid, even if you butcher the English language and have never been to the opera.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm

“There is no other in the World—
Mine was the only one”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm

“A crime scene has a life of its own. It remembers trauma in soil, insects altered by body fluids, and plants trampled by feet. It loses its privacy just as any witness does, for no stone is left undisturbed, and the curious do not stop coming just because there are no further questions to ask.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm

“It is not uncommon for pathologists to fix brains in a ten percent solution of formaldehyde called formalin. The chemical process preserves and firms tissue. It makes further studies possible, especially in cases involving trauma to this most incredible and least understood of all human organs.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm

“Dr. Thomas Katz was a master forensic scientist who had maniacally pursued this elusive evidence for most of his career. He also was an expert in time of death, which he researched just as diligently with ways and means that were not commonly known to the hoi polloi. His laboratory was called The Body Farm, and I had been there many times.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm

“Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, or VICAP,”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm

“Shuford Mills of Hickory, North Carolina. They’re one of the biggest duct tape manufacturers in the country. Their best-known brand is Shurtape.” “Hickory is only sixty miles or so east of Black Mountain,” I said.”
― Patricia Cornwell, 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, 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, The Body Farm