The Scarpetta Factor Quotes

“You’re only as good as the people around you.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Scarpetta Factor

“Serenity comes from knowing what you can and can’t change,” Nancy”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Scarpetta Factor

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― Patricia Cornwell, The Scarpetta Factor

“Unless you’re in the casino business,” Scarpetta said. “Then you would want to seek the most efficient means to overstimulate, to prevent a state of sensory deprivation. You want people to be impulse-driven, to lose their way, so you bombard the visual and auditory environment, the total field, the Ganzfeld, and your clients become a confused quarry without the slightest inkling of what’s safe and what’s not. You blind and deafen them with bright lights and noise so you can take what they’ve got. So you can steal.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Scarpetta Factor

“Chances for survival are better if you’re civilized and don’t go out of your way to piss everybody off unless there’s something tangible to be gained by it.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Scarpetta Factor

“Aggression is about competing. Competing for the male, for the female, competing for the person most fit for breeding. Competing for resources such as food and shelter. Competing for power, because without hierarchy there can't be social order. In other words, aggression occurs when it's profitable.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Scarpetta Factor

“witnessed the moment of recognition that it was over or it wasn’t. The look was never exactly the same. Rage, hate, shock, grief, anguish, terror, scorn, amusement, combinations of them, and nothing. As different as people are different.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Scarpetta Factor

“Rage, hate, shock, grief, anguish, terror, scorn, amusement, combinations of them, and nothing.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Scarpetta Factor

“When an aircraft seems motionless, it’s either heading directly toward you or directly away. Better know which it is or you’re dead.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Scarpetta Factor