"rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying."

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Source : Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Four Scarpetta Novels”, p.415, Penguin

Patricia Cornwell

#Rain Quotes #Science Quotes #Night Quotes

“Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doors and out onto the veranda. As Hale closed the door behind him, Kat heard Angus say, "Ooh, Mom and Dad are going to fight now.”
“Rollover minutes donâ€™t work with curfews.”
“Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemyâ€™s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.”
“So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.”
“Atlanta is not like New York, where everybody piles into one place.”
“Home is where you hange your memories. . . Home is where you begin again to dream again.”
“Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.”
“Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.”

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