Autopsy Quotes

“You could have married somebody easier, you know. I warned you often enough.” “How boring that would be,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“I’ve been hearing it nonstop, making me feel carped at the same way my mother did, reminding me of every mistake I’ve ever made including my profession. A doctor to the dead because I can’t bother with the living, she’d tell anyone who’d listen.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“Testing positive herself, Lucy wasn’t allowed to fly anywhere, certainly not to other countries. She sheltered in place, suffering only mild symptoms, and I’m not sure she’ll forgive herself for surviving when they didn’t.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“I think she’s lonely, and I’m afraid I wasn’t very sociable,” I reply, feeling another twinge of guilt. “But my personality is used up for the day.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“Boundary crashing under the guise of southern hospitality, she volunteered Marino and Lucy’s services. It would be just like Dorothy to play the hero.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“As I near the anthropology lab, I hear the quiet clatter of bones defleshing in bleach-infused water that will simmer for days.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“There always will be more. The next accident or homicide. Another person ends it all or drops dead unexpectedly, those left behind irreparably altered.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“pugilistic”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“(approximately 28,000 kilometers per hour or Mach 22).”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“Debunk is just another way of changing the message to what you want people to believe.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“stand sentry”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“I wouldn’t be instructing him where it goes next, to whom and why, and we’d better hope chain of custody never becomes a question. Because when Marino stopped at Rex’s house in the middle of the night, that was the end of anything remotely resembling proper procedures.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“ball lighting.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“snarly writing”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“I don’t know what’s going to happen as technology makes us increasingly detached from others,” I explain. “How dangerous if we can’t tell what’s real from what isn’t. What do we trust?”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“make it up to Lucy, as I’ve vowed so many times before. “I can’t imagine how difficult it must be.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“plashes,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy

“egress,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy