Red Mist Quotes

“You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“I feel something change in me... I feel a flat calm, a detachment, the way I get when something is too much and yet l must function and in fact function at the highest level. I know what I'm in for, only a fool wouldn't know that...”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“People can burn and beat love out of you. They really can kill it, and it’s not your fault you don’t feel it anymore, and how liberating it is to finally realize that. Love isn’t for better or for worse, through thick or thin. It damn well shouldn’t be.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“And in an odd way, realizing all this has given me an unexpected satisfaction and a little more self-respect. I have changed, and it’s for the better. You really can’t love unconditionally. People can burn and beat love out of you. They really can kill it, and it’s not your fault you don’t feel it anymore, and how liberating it is to finally realize that. Love isn’t for better or for worse, through thick or thin. It damn well shouldn’t be.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“Some people should never be gone, and those that should hang around forever.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“You can’t cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“And in an odd way, realizing all this has given me an unexpected satisfaction and a little more self-respect. I have changed, and it’s for the better. You really can’t love unconditionally. People can burn and beat love out of you. They really can kill it, and it’s not your fault you don’t feel it anymore, and how liberating it is to finally realize that. Love isn’t for better or for worse, through thick or thin.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“been programmed in the womb or maybe at conception and there’s no escaping. The roulette wheel spins and stops and your number comes up and that’s what you are no matter how hard you try or even if you don’t try at all. You are what you are, you are what you’re not, and other events and other people just enhance the angel or devil, the winner or the loser in you. It’s all about the spinning of the wheel, whether it’s hitting the winning home run in the World Series or being raped. Decided”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“the beat of a butterfly wing causes a hurricane on another part of the planet.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“You really can’t love unconditionally. People can burn and beat love out of you. They really can kill it, and it’s not your fault you don’t feel it anymore, and how liberating it is to finally realize that. Love isn’t for better or for worse, through thick or thin. It damn well shouldn’t be. Were Jack still alive, I would not love him.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“in what they’ve done. Feed right into their narcissism. They were doing the world a favor.” “Yes, people who believe that. Hitler, for example.” “Except Tara Grimm wasn’t obvious,” Benton”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“My niece has a habit of telling you she’s leaving after she’s already gone.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“there are no more questions when people already have the answers.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“If you don’t have a reputation to protect, just plead guilty. Better than getting a jury of your peers,” she snarls, “who want to make an example out of you.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“Victims have no rights while they’re being victimized and few rights during the slow, tedious grind of the criminal justice process. The injuries don’t heal but continue to be inflicted, by lawyers, by the media, by jurors, by witnesses who testify that someone like me had it coming or caused it.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“You have to live where you wake up, even if somebody else dreamed you there.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“I keep waiting for some God-awful scourge we haven’t heard of or dealt with before. Weaponizing chemicals and diseases. I don’t give a damn what anybody says. Nobody’s prepared for vast numbers of infectious or contaminated dead bodies”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“You really can’t love unconditionally. People can burn and beat love out of you. They really can kill it, and it’s not your fault you don’t feel it anymore, and how liberating it is to finally realize that. Love isn’t for better or for worse, through thick or thin. It damn well shouldn’t be.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“I love butter, which is why I stay away from it.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“You need to quit telling me I’m going to feel better. This is why people go to meetings. Because they feel like fucking shit and want to kill everyone who says they’re going to feel better.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist