Flesh and Blood Quotes

“The truth is none of us always does what’s right or fair.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“It’s not true that we are never given more than we can bear. Only it isn’t given. It simply happens.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Gordian knot, a knot impossible to unravel, and Alexander the Great solved the problem by cutting through it with his sword, in other words by cheating.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Fundamental problems are the same for everyone,” I reply as we move ahead again, then stop again. “Life, death, sickness, diets, relationships, bills that need to be paid.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“It’s not true that we are never given more than we can bear. Only it isn’t given.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“He has Raynaud’s syndrome”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“When you look into the abyss, it also looks into you.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Odors have their own story to tell and the secret is to block them out after they’re no longer relevant.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Io non volevo vivere la mia vita con la paura del male.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Then he’s aware.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“more people hate, the more they hate. It spreads like a plague, the only cure humaneness and decency, in short supply it seems.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“The more people hate, the more they hate. It spreads like a plague, the only cure humaneness and decency, in short supply it seems.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“motivates”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Rosado is the chairman of the Homeland Security subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security. He’s in the news often these days because of his controversial push to build a virtual fence on the Arizona-Mexican border. He’s”
― Collins Publishers, Flesh And Blood

“Nietzsche said: When you look into the abyss, it also looks into you.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Instant death is rare. It can be caused by the dislocation of the C2 from the vertebral body. When I see this it’s usually in hangings with long sudden drops such as from a bridge or a tall tree, and in motor vehicle and diving accidents when the victim suffers a hyperflexion injury after striking his head on a dashboard or the bottom of a pool. If the spinal cord is severed, the brain is no longer attached to the body. The heart and lungs instantly quit.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“on his lips. He’s in jeans and loafers, a Red Sox windbreaker”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“two blocks down from my house? What the hell is going on?” “Nothing good,” Marino says. I Google Sonny’s Lawn Care. There’s no such”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Bad people rarely get what’s coming to them and good guys really don’t win because the damage exceeds the punishment, assuming there’s any punishment at all. Prison and even the death penalty don’t undo a sexual homicide or mass murders or bring back a child abused and killed by a pedophile.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Phantosmia. I’m not sure it’s real.” “It is. Molecules of putrefaction become volatilized like pollution attaching to water molecules in the air and creating smog.” “So I have the smog of death in my sinuses.” “More or less.” “Christ I hope I don’t stink.” I lean close to him, and diamond-stitched black leather smells”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Tactical engagement principle number one is if you don’t have a clear and decisive objective the operation becomes disconnected and unfocused.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Our government spies and lies. Those trusted to uphold and enforce the law use it to their advantage instead.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Absolute power has corrupted and the absence of checks and balances seems complete.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Succedono cose terribili.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Anger helps nothing. What’s done is done. Now we move on.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood

“Predators watch their quarry. It starts with the eyes.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood