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Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

Your aura has nothing to do with colors or foods you like." She smiled. "Yellow can mean spiritual. And brown I associate with good sense, practical. Someone grounded in reality. I see your aura as being very spiritual but also very practical. Now mind you, that is my interpretation. For each person, colors mean a different thing. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

There was something about Gawain's youth and credulity that was driving me to puncture his pious innocence. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

Some people should never be gone, and those that should hang around forever. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear claws at us, time seems to stop, there is silence though a thousand men shout, and at that moment, when terror savages the heart like a trapped beast, you must hurl yourself into the horror.
Because the enemy feels the same.
And you have come to kill him. You are the beast from his nightmares. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Betsy Cornwell

I have to believe it's right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend. — Betsy Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

WALTER SICKERT was connected with Jack the Ripper long before I appeared on the scene. I'm not the first one to think of him. But I'm the first to investigate him the same way we would a suspect today. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Yule is supposed to be a celebration and a consolation, a moment of warm brightness in the heart of winter, a time to eat because you know that the lean times are coming when food will be scarce and ice locks the land, and a time to be happy and get drunk and behave irresponsibly and wake up the next morning wondering if you will ever feel well again, but the West Saxons handed the feast to the priests who made it as joyous as a funeral. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

She can love one minute and feel nothing the next, not even anger or pain, because after a while those, too, will pass. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

But caffeine, cigarettes and cholesterol, the grim reapers of the common man - God forbid I should give them up. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

He sang the song of the sword, keening as he fed his blade, and Rollo, standing thigh-deep in the creek, ax swinging in murderous blows, blocked the enemy's escape. The Frisians, transported from confidence to bowel-loosening fear, began to drop their weapons. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I forget your name," I said.
"Most people spew shit from their arse," he retorted, "you manage it with your mouth."
"Your mother gave birth through her arse," I said, "and you still reek of her shit. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Seven kings will die, she had said, seven kings and the women you love. And Alfred's son will not rule and Wessex will die and the Saxon will kill what he loves and the Danes will gain everything, and all will change and all will be the same. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

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

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I am old now. So old. My sight fades, my muscles are weak, my piss dribbles, my bones ache, and I sit in the sun and fall asleep to wake tired. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

The art of war," I told him, "is to make the enemy do your bidding. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Certainly strip him of his petty — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

His charms worked, for though the bullets flicked close none hit him. He was the tiger of Mysore, he could not die, only kill. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

Absolute power has corrupted and the absence of checks and balances seems complete. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By John Cornwell

The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment. — John Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I believe the Gods hate to be bored, so I do my best to amuse them. That way they smile on me. Your God,' Merlin said sourly, 'despises amusement, demanding grovelling worship instead. He must be a very sorry creature. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Passion, Baird reckoned, was what would take men across the river and up the breach. Damn scientific soldiering now. The science of siege warfare had opened the city, but only a screaming and insane passion would take men inside. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

You're the son of a king,' I told him, 'and one day you might be a king yourself. Life and death will be your gifts, so learn how to give them, boy. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

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

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours! — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Tomorrow," he shouted, "you do not fight for me! I fight for you! I fight for Wessex! I fight for your wives, for your children and your homes! Tomorrow we fight and, I swear to you on my father's grave and on my children's lives, tomorrow we shall win! — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

The joy of it. The sword joy. I was dancing with joy, joy seething in me, the battle joy that Ragnar had so often spoken of, the warrior joy. If a man has not known it, then he is no man. It was no battle, that, no proper slaughter, just a thief-killing, but it was my first fight and the gods had moved in me, had given my arm speed and my shield strength, and when it was done, and when I danced in the blood of the dead, I knew I was good. Knew I was more than good. I could have conquered the world at that moment and my only regret was that Ragnar had not seen me, but then I thought he might be watching from Valhalla and I raised Serpent-Breath to the clouds and shouted his name. I have seen other young men come from their first fights with that same joy, and I have buried them after their next battle. The young are fools and I was young. But I was good. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

He doesn't want to face Englishmen,' the Lord of Douglas said, and he knew he was right. Ever since the Scottish knights — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Thinking of her, he felt a sudden longing inside him. She had the face of a hawk, slim and cruel, with dark hair and eyes. Teresa was beautiful as a fine sword was beautiful; slim and hard. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

People fail, everything fails, the magic we're born believing in and working for and then doubting and finally fearing eventually rusts, rots, fades, breaks down, withers, dies, and turns to dust, and for me the response is always the same. I clean up. It's what I do and — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

So we rode through a broken gate in a broken wall into a broken town, and it was dusk, and the day's rain had finally lifted, and a shaft of red sunlight came from beneath the western clouds as we entered the ruined town. We rode straight into the light of that swollen sun which reflected from my helm that had the silver wolf on its crest, and it shone from my mail coat and from my arm rings and from the hilts of my two swords, and someone shouted that I was the king. I rode Witnere, who tossed his great head and pawed at the ground, and I was dressed in my shining war glory. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

One book at a time ... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Betsy Cornwell

I brought my hand to the back of his neck and leaned into him, sliding my fingers into the curls at his nape. His arms clasped tighter around me. I sighed just a little against his mouth, feeling that it was almost too much, all this newness, this feeling that there was space and light inside me I'd never noticed before. Every part of me down to my fingertips felt like reworked glass, melting into some new shape, my edges beginning to glow. I wanted to do nothing but change this way, pressed against his body, his warmth and goodness, forever. — Betsy Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

They're praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig! — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

I refuse to sit on my laurels. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

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

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice? — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

If you roll the dice often enough you always get the numbers you want. If I tell you the sun will shine tomorrow and that it will rain and there will be snow and that clouds will cover the sky and that wind will blow and that it will be a calm day and that thunder will deafen us, then one of those things will turn out to be true and you'll forget the rest because you want to believe that I really can tell the future. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

But we do not choose our deaths. The Norns do that at the foot of Yggdrasil and I imagined one of those three Fates holding the shears above my thread. She was ready to cut, and all that mattered now was to keep tight hold of my sword so that the winged women would take me to Valhalla's feasting-hall. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I recalled that a man named Judas had betrayed the nailed god. That never made any sense to me. The god had to be nailed to a cross if he was to become their savior, and then the Christians blame the man who made that death possible. I thought they should worship him as a saint, but instead they revile him as a betrayer. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

Eddie Heath had come in naked with IV needles, catheter, and dressings still in place. They — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Next time we fight the Danes you'll be with me.
"You?"
"Because we are warriors," I said, "and our job is to kill our enemies, not be nursemaids to weaklings. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Writing is a solitary occupation. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

What are our intentions, sir?" "Our intentions, Milton? Our intentions are victory, fame, glory, peace, forgiveness of our enemies, reconciliation, magnanimity, prosperity, happiness, and the assured promise of heaven's reward." "Then might I suggest, sir," Cogswell said, trying to sober the ebullient Senator, "that we advance and occupy that stand of trees? — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I was born a Saxon, but raised by Danes, my daughter had married a Norseman, my dearest friend was Irish, my woman was a Saxon, the mother of my children had been Danish, my gods were pagan, and my oath was sworn to AEthelflaed, a Christian. Whose side was I on? — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

A search through Whistler's correspondence, now online at the University of Glasgow, paints a portrait of a relationship that at times was volatile, with Sickert swinging from sycophantic to offended and defensive. Whistler's — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I spoke in English because the language of the Frisian people is so close to our own. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

How anyone could endure three or four hours of chanting monks and ranting priests was beyond my understanding, just as it was beyond my understanding to know why bishops needed thrones. They would be demanding crowns next. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

The public is blaming the city officials, who in turn have to find someone else to blame. It's the nature of the beast. If the police, the politicians, can pass the buck on down the line, they will. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

You can't live somewhere," he told me, "if the people don't want you to be there. They can kill our cattle or poison our streams, and we would never know who did it. You either slaughter them all or learn to live with them. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I shook my head. 'Killing isn't woman's work,' I said. 'Why not?' she asked. 'We give life, can't we take it too? — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I ran with him and suddenly I was released from fear as the mad, God-given joy of battle came to me for the very first time. Later, much later, I learned that the joy and the fear are the exact same things, the one merely transformed into the other by action, but on that summer afternoon I was suddenly elated. May God and His angels forgive me, but that day I discovered the joy that lies in battle and for a long time afterwards I craved it like a thirsty man seeking water. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Alfred was obsessed by order, obsessed by the task of marshaling life's chaos into something that could be controlled. He would do it by the church and by the law, which are much the same thing, but I wanted to see a pattern in the strands of life. In the end I found one, and it had nothing to do with any god, but with people. With the people we love. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

He died without cutting his nails, she said accusingly, as if I was responsible for that ill luck, and it was bad fortune indeed because now the grim things of the underworld would use Ivar's nails to build the ship that would bring chaos at the world's end. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

So you know it was a glorious battle, Hook, in which God favoured the English, but God's favour is a fickle thing.'
'Are you telling me He's not on our side?'
'I'm telling you that God is on the side of whoever wins, Hook. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

It will never end.
Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our land, and for our homes. Some Christians speak of peace, of the evil of war, and who does not want peace? But then some crazed warrior comes screaming his god's filthy name into your face and his only ambitions are to kill you, to rape your wife, to enslave your daughters, and take your home, and so you must fight. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

broiling heat, and here I was standing out in the middle of it because he wouldn't leave me alone. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I have lived my life, Derfel,' he said at last, 'according to oaths. I know no other way. I resent oaths, and so should all men, for oaths bind us, they hobble our freedom, and who among us doesn't want to be free? But if we abandon oaths then we abandon guidance. We fall into chaos. We just fall. We become no better than beasts. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

When rumours fly, when false tales are being told, be the storyteller. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

point is, he wants to hurt you, doc, and he's already trying hard. one way or another he's going to screw you, if he can."
"he can wait in line with all the other people who want to. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

You spent it on oil for your hair,' I said, 'and on baubles for your whores, on furs and on horses, on jewels and on silk. A man, Lord Eardwulf, dresses in leather and iron. And he fights. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird's wing beating, the world seems unreal. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I paid him," Lawford said indignantly.
"If you want a job done properly," Sharpe said, "you do it yourself. Hell! — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

When those blades cut, they cause tears that feed the well of Urdr that lies beside the world tree, and the well gives the water that keeps Yggdrasil alive, and if Yggdrasil dies then the world dies, and so the well must be kept filled and for that there must be tears. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

World rotted as we slid from light into darkness, getting ever nearer to the black chaos in which this middle world would end and the gods would fight and all love and light and laughter would dissolve. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

To hear the tales told at night-time hearths you would think we had made a whole new country in Britain, named it Camelot and peopled it with shining heroes, but the truth is that we simply ruled Dumnonia as best we could, we ruled it justly and we never called it Camelot. Camelot exists only in the poets' dreams, while in our Dumnonia, even in those good years, the harvests still failed, the plagues still ravaged us and wars were still fought. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

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

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

aborigine, angry, beautiful, fiery, fearless, remorseless and untouchable, overly — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

In madness lies change, in change is opportunity, and in opportunity are riches. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Dealing with the Scots, my father had always said, was like trying to geld wildcats with your teeth, but luckily the wildcats spent much of their time fighting each other. Once — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

I just gazed at the smoke haze above Lundene, the darkness darkening a summer sky, and wished I were a bird, high in that nothingness, vanishing. Haesten — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Laughter in battle. That was what Ragnar had taught me, to take joy from the fight. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

But you can get arrows from the — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Have you heard a cuckoo yet?" I asked Steapa. "Not yet." "It's time to go," I said, "unless you want to kill me?" "Maybe later," Steapa said, "but for the moment I'll fight beside you." And — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Forward now. Forward to battle slaughter. Beware the man who loves battle. Ravn had told me that only one man in three or perhaps one man in four is a real warrior and the rest are reluctant fighters, but I was to learn that only one man in twenty is a lover of battle. Such men were the most dangerous, the most skillful, the ones who reaped the souls, and the ones to fear. I was such a one, and that day, beside the river where the blood flowed into the rising tide, and beside the burning boats, I let Serpent-Breath sing her song of death. I remember little except a rage, an exultation, a massacre. This was the moment the skalds celebrate, the heart of the battle that leads to victory, and the courage had gone from those Danes in a heartbeat. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

War has become our national industry, like automotives and steel and the railroads once were. — Patricia Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

An enemy sees his attackers laughing? It is better than all the insults. A man who laughs as he goes into battle is a man who has confidence, and a man with confidence is terrifying to an enemy. "For the whore!" I shouted. — Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell Quotes By Bernard Cornwell

Serpent-Breath was in my hand and anger in my soul. — Bernard Cornwell