Livid Quotes

“Forensic pathology takes you places you think you’re fine to go but can’t come back from.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“You represent everything she’s ever wanted that hasn’t wanted her back,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“Dogg sold out to the devil the same way most people do. A little bit at a time.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“He decided the world had been overtaken by selfish wrongheaded people lacking in empathy,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“didn’t like the people in his office, and felt his best days were gone. Forensic pathologists weren’t the purists they used to be, a lot of them not discreet and respectful anymore. … They’re too busy wanting to be talking heads on TV, he says. Everybody wants to be famous. Well, I don’t…”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“Not so different from your fishing shirts that have UV protection and built-in bug protection,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“Got to go, and not sure when we’ll talk next,” Benton is saying. “Don’t forget I love you.” I”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“God won’t give you more than you can endure. It’s not true. But I don’t blame God. I blame people.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“Mostly, it’s about politics. It’s about attorneys and others exploiting a vulnerability”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“would have steered him away from his eventual profession. Forensic pathology takes you places you think you’re fine to go but can’t come back from. Bailey wasn’t emotionally equipped to handle the exposure, his psyche forever kinked and broken by it.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“Maggie had more self-important commendations and certificates displayed than I do,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“There’s nothing to absorb sound, the large open work area an acoustical nightmare.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“Her ambition was to be a Secret Service investigator, but her application was rejected. The intelligence community didn’t hire her, either. Eventually, Patty Mullet ended up with the FBI, where she washed out of the Behavioral Analysis Unit when Benton was the chief during our early days. “She didn’t make the cut, still wouldn’t, and this is why,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“told her the truth,” he says. “That what I’m seeing is consistent with microwave attacks.” Depending on where they occur there will be dead bugs, birds, mice, other animals. The line of fire is visible through foliage no matter the time of year. Metal objects get magnetized. The wiring is fried by what’s essentially a huge power surge. There are many signs if you know how to interpret them. Albert recites some of the very things we discussed during our last Doomsday Commission meeting at the Pentagon. In one case he worked, the pet parrot in a metal cage was fine. But the houseplants were cooked, the power knocked out. The attack left a trail of parched foliage and dead insects outside the window the microwaves passed through. The government official inside at the time suffered cognitive impairment and hearing loss, and can’t work anymore. “The Russians are involved in a lot of this sort of nasty business, as you know,” Albert says. “Most recently Saudi Arabia has been developing these types of weapons, and the Chinese have been perfecting them for decades. But it could be anyone, and no doubt they’re getting better at it.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“I have a feeling that by now Roxane Dare is well aware of Elvin Reddy’s Machiavellian machinations.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“All I ask is that people see Maggie and Elvin for what they are. That’s all I ever ask about anyone.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“I’ve decided that at the end of the day there are no new stories,” Annie says. “Cain slaying Abel. Jacob cheating Esau. Joseph’s brothers throwing him into a pit. Anybody”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“People will do the unthinkable when the need is overpowering, and often it’s a mundane one. Revenge. Rage. Envy. Lust. Greed. The usual.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“Honi soit qui mal y pense. Evil to him who thinks it. May you get what you deserve. Karma’s a bitch. What you do to others you do to yourself.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“But it would be better to have a copper roof, and high metal fencing around the entire property. If I were remodeling the place, I’d have copper microfibers woven into the wallpaper, window treatments and the pads under rugs. New construction would include the same shielding. But I’d have it incorporated into the very structure, and it’s hard knowing where to stop. One”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“Mozart’s The Magic Flute”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“cleithrophobia,”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“The nineteenth-century James Gale Tyler maritime paintings of sailing ships and moonlit seas”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“How are we supposed to guard against shit like this?” he says. “I don’t know how anybody protects themselves anymore.” I don’t answer because I don’t have a satisfactory one, and what we face isn’t a new problem. Clubs and spears were replaced by crossbows and firearms, and on it goes. There will always be the next thing weaponized, more efficient ways to cause inhumanity and destruction. It’s coded into our DNA to discover them, and the way the planet is programmed. If you ask Benton he’ll tell you that fearing for our lives is motivating. People get more done when pitted against opposing forces. Wars can bring us together, and pain creates poetry. It would have been better if diligence, exquisite engineering and empathy were what inspired. But I didn’t write the algorithm.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“just imagine the worst scenario someone might dream up. Then be prepared for it to happen. Because it will. Probably it already has. “The”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“and it’s true about the enemy you pick. It’s who you become most like if you’re not careful.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“that fearing for our lives is motivating. People get more done when pitted against opposing forces. Wars can bring us together, and pain creates poetry. It would have been better if diligence, exquisite engineering and empathy were what inspired. But I didn’t write the algorithm.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid

“There will always be the next thing weaponized, more efficient ways to cause inhumanity and destruction. It’s coded into our DNA to discover them, and the way the planet is programmed. If you ask Benton he’ll tell you”
― Patricia Cornwell, Livid