Depraved Heart Quotes

“a force to reckon with. I’m sure of that. “The rear”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“about the timing.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Maybe nothing phased her until she was beaten to death on her marble floor, and I envision a blitz attack.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“This day could be our last and if it’s in the cards then so be it. I’ll prevent any bad thing I can. That’s my life’s mission. I also know how to accept finality, to give myself up to what I can’t begin to change. I don’t want to die. But I refuse to fear it. I wait for it without dread because there’s no logic in living a tragedy before it’s happened.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Disrespect is a symptom of weakness, of smallness, of an existential problem. By acting rude to me he’s showing me what he really thinks of himself.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Technology made everything better for a while and now it seems life is circling back around to the dark ages.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“But to whom much is given much also can be taken,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Vulgarity is inversely proportionate to intelligence and facility with languages. Profuse swearing is generally associated with a low IQ, a limited vocabulary and uncontrollable hostility.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“For that matter I didn't understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give voice to such skepticisms, and when asked if I was a Yankee I said I didn't follow baseball closely. That usually shut the person up.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“and Johns Hopkins medical school. I’m a special reservist colonel in the Air Force. I’ve testified before Senate subcommittees and have been a guest at the White House. I’m the chief medical examiner of Massachusetts and director of the crime labs among other things. I didn’t get this far in life to be called ma’am. “Nothing for me thank you,” I reply politely.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“You do your job. You risk your life. You sacrifice if that’s what it takes because that’s what people like us are sworn to do.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Badly.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“When terrorists find something that works they keep on doing it. It’s predictable”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Technology made everything better for a while and now it seems life is circling back around to the dark ages. Digital communication has begun to make me feel I’m moving faster than ever even as I lose the trusted navigational equipment I was born with. My own eyes. My own ears. My own sense of touch. I miss paper and pen. I miss face-to-face conversations. I worry we’re on a collision course with doubt and delusion on a galactic scale.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Tell me about data fiction.” “It’s what can happen if we’re so reliant on technology that we become completely dependent on things we can’t see. Therefore we can no longer judge for ourselves what’s true, what’s false, what’s accurate, what isn’t. In other words if reality is defined by software that does all the work for us then what if this software lies? What if everything we believe isn’t true but is a facade, a mirage? What if we go to war, pull the plug, make life-and-death decisions based on data fiction?”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Vulgarity is inversely proportionate to intelligence and facility with languages. Profuse swearing is generally associated with a low IQ, a limited vocabulary”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“His words and not-so-quiet whispers are around me like shards of glass that glint and cut. Fragments of thoughts. Ignorant banal ones. Hyde is the master of dumb nicknames and comes up with dreadful puns, and I remember what he said as recently as last month when a group of us met at the Cambridge watering hole Paddy’s to toast Pete Marino’s birthday. Hyde insisted on buying me a round, on treating me to a stiff drink, maybe a Bloody Mary or a Sudden Death or a Spontaneous Combustion”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Lucy is the skeleton key to everything we do at the CFC. She’s the keeper of my electronic kingdom, and therefore potentially a portal for the Feds. They could attempt to use her to gain access to office e-mail accounts and case records that go back many decades, and next I start wondering why they might care. I wonder why the helicopter followed me here. Did it really? Or did it just seem like it? Is the FBI only after Lucy? Are they after her at all or is it me they want”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“clock has been synced with the others. “Was there any other indication that Chanel Gilbert worked in here? What else was on the desk?” I begin looking at the framed photographs of sea turtles, eagle”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“aborigine, angry, beautiful, fiery, fearless, remorseless and untouchable, overly”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“If you’re never an original thinker how can you possibly get in trouble? If you’re banal and unoriginal enough you’ll get promoted.” We”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“importantly Lucy’s past, and I envision”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“on another spree. I constantly looked for her when I was with Lucy”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“you?” “Jealousy. It’s toxic.” “How about lying, which is all you ever do. Over and over again.” “You need to start putting this on every time you go out, even on overcast days in the dead of winter.” The viscous translucent lotion Carrie dribbles into her palm looks like semen. “And”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Marino routinely butchers clichés and thinks an idiom is a stupid person.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“When terrorists find something that works they keep on doing it. It’s predictable.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Punishment isn’t punishment if you don’t feel punished, if you don’t experience the suffering that’s intended. It’s all about perception. It’s all about the way you react to something and that reaction is the real weapon.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Digital communication has begun to make me feel I’m moving faster than ever even as I lose the trusted navigational equipment I was born with. My own eyes. My own ears. My own sense of touch. I miss paper and pen. I miss face-to-face conversations. I worry we’re on a collision course with doubt and delusion on a galactic scale.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“Non fare i patti con il diavolo,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart

“DEDICATION To Staci”
― Patricia Cornwell, Depraved Heart