Cruel & Unusual Quotes

“No, Lucy. Your mother doesn’t really love men. They are a symptom of her obsessive quest of finding somebody who will make her whole. She doesn’t understand that she has to make herself whole.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“being in love brings out both the best and the worst in us. One day we’re generous and sensitive to a fault, and the next we’re not fit to shoot. Our lives become lessons in extremes.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“(Lucy:) Why do you think I was such a little fatso? From eating the junk she bought. Snacks, sodas, and pizza that tastes like cardboard. I have fat cells that will scream for the rest of my life because of Mother. I'll never forgive her.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel & Unusual

“It is disheartening when a thinking person is forced to admit that many clichés are true. There is no justice on this earth.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“Charity is giving to someone what he needs versus what you want to give him.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“every time you get rid of one toad there's another to take his place”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel & Unusual

“Waddell discovered he had savaged a local celebrity whose lover, Joe Norring, was then the attorney general of Virginia.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“You see, we wake up one day to regret such decisions. We wake up in an empty bed with an empty day stretching before us and nothing to look forward to but empty weeks, months, and years.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“habeas did not serve as a deterrent designed to ensure that state trial and appellate judges conscientiously sought to conduct their proceedings in a manner consistent with established constitutional principles. God forbid that there should have been the slightest interest in constitutional violations on furthering the evolution of our thinking in some area of the law.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“For the record, I will tell you that you have the distinction of being the most misogynistic and arrogant professor I encountered during my thirtysome years of formal education. And I must thank you for schooling me so well in the art of dealing with bastards, for the world is full of them and I must deal with them every day.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“I will tell you that you have the distinction of being the most misogynistic and arrogant professor I encountered during my thirtysome years of formal education. And I must thank you for schooling me so well in the art of dealing with bastards, for the world is full of them and I must deal with them every day.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“Grass was frosted white, rhododendron leaves curled tight, winter bare trees backlit by the moon.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel & Unusual

“This neighborhood used to be all white,” Marino said. “I remember when I first came to Richmond this was a good area to live. Lots of decent, hardworking folks who kept their yards real nice and went to church on Sunday.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“Disney.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“She was grossly overweight, though I could tell from her refined features that she may have been quite pretty in a younger, leaner life.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“The next three days were typical for the holiday season. No one was in or returning telephone calls. Parking”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“The body was not yet fully rigorous and was still slightly warm as I began swabbing any area that a washcloth might have missed. I”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“Eddie Heath had come in naked with IV needles, catheter, and dressings still in place. They”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“And are they consistent with the injuries inflicted by the electric chair, with”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual

“Yeah. You know what that sounds like. You’d know it if you”
― Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual