The Last Precinct Quotes

“We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to mania, from depression to tranquility and beneath it all, excitement fizzes as if my blood is filled with gas.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“Thoughts are odd misfires”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“Truth is relative, then. It is about timing. It is about what is safe. Truth is the luxury of the privileged, of people who have plenty of food and are not forced to hide because they are Jews. Truth can destroy, and therefore it is not always wise or even healthy to be truthful.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“To hate another person is wrong. It is never right. Hate is a crime of the spirit that leads to crimes of the flesh.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like,”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“Shutting down is denial. When you deny the past, you will repeat it.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“I realize that at least one big difference between killers and their victims is killers are present. They live entirely in the moment, taking in their surroundings, intensely aware of every detail and how it might benefit or compromise them. They watch strangers. They fix on a face and decide to follow the person home.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“One might deduce that a fellow settler was to blame, leading to the not so far-fetched notion that America’s karma, sadly, seems to be for us to kill each other.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“A great common denominator underlies this denial, and it is this: People tend to believe that bad things happen only to others.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“Arnold is one of those people who is overwhelmed by inertia. He battles gravity. Gravity wins.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“Every good Catholic feels guilt.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“I crave the silence, the absolute aloneness when the rest of the world is unconscious and not needing something from me.”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“ridiculous”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“fearful wave. I work my way up against pillows”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct

“he looks dorky in Bavarian button-up heavy green wool pants tucked into fleece-lined rubber boots with big tread. He wears a plaid Burberry-type wool sweater buttoned up to his chin, as if he can’t decide whether he will climb a mountain or play golf in Scotland this”
― Patricia Cornwell, The Last Precinct