Autopsy Quotes

“Diamonds were everything I hoped to be; beautiful, yet containing unimaginable strength.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“What is a man's soul made of that a woman's is not?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.”
― Bill Watterson

“Always foster and grow that unquenchable curiosity of yours." I smiled. That was a promise I fully intended to keep.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?

The Sixth Sense.

Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Some ghosts should remain good and buried, Niece.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Their minds were crying out to be set free, but they refused to unbind them.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“My notebook was filled with images of things a lady had no business being fascinated by, yet I couldn't control my curiosity.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Envy and respect are not the same things...
Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether your curiosity is intellectual or merely morbid. Not that those who gawk at train derailments are so different from those who conduct autopsies; both want, at some level, to know what has happened, and, by extension, what will happen. Did the liver fail because of the decedent's alcoholism or was some toxin administered? If the deliverer is found, he or she may be imprisoned or, in more honest times, hanged, and thus pose no further threat. Or for the gawker at the accident, espying loose parts not unlike his or her own parts strewn amid wreckage may lead to a sense of awe at death's power, or horror at life's fragility, either of which may be instructive in any number of ways.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead

“I need to know when,' he said, 'In this case when is more important than how. Do you have a time-table?' For although images of this murder now surrounded him, and the parts of the body had become emblems of pursuit, violence and flight, they were as broken and indistinct as the sounds of a quarrel in a locked room.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

“She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre

“Men kjære betenk, De har Fordel af Sagen
Jeg skal faa Dem aabnet og lagt for Dagen
Hvad jeg navnlig vil søge er Sædet for Drømmene
og forresten gå Dem kritisk efter i Sømmene”
― Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt

“Only when he was conducting an autopsy could he forget the death of his beloved son. Ironically, playing with dead bodies released him from the death that had touched him.”
― Koji Suzuki, Spiral

“This is the place where death rejoices to help those who live. It's written somewhere in every morgue I've ever been in. Nice way of looking at it, isn't it?”
― Jane Casey, The Last Girl

“They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weighing twenty-one grams, according to the experiments of the American doctor Duncan MacDougall-takes up a surprising amount of space, like aloud voice. In its absence, the body seems to shrink”
― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

“I'm gonna go crack open a cold one with the boys." Brennan grinned mischievously.

"DUDE!" James yelled after him, "You gotta stop referring to autopsies that way!”
― Ryan J. Gutierrez, Scars in Time: A Novel

“What must it be like, knowing you raised the devil? It probably felt the same as knowing you sat by a monster day in and day out, never noticing the blackness of his soul.”
― Kerri Maniscalco