from Cruel and unusual

Cornwell´s perspective of people
(239) The Protocol was actuallyu a forty-page FBI questionnaire filled in during a face-to-face prison interview with a violent offender.
"Flip through this yourself", Wesley said "I'd like to hear your thoughts without further imput from me."
Wesley's interview had taken place six years ago. Waddell's state indicated that... Then...
(259) The thing about people is, whether you´re sitting on a throne or on a hot seat, they´re going to use your position to their advantage. And if there´s no bond between you and them, that just makes it all the easier for them to try to get what they want whitout giving a rat´s ass about what happens to you. And that´s where you are. There´s a lot of people who´s been waiting for years to see you bleed.
(219) They are symptoms of her obsessive quest of finding somebody who will make her whole. She doesn´t understand she has to make herself whole.
(269) I never met Special Agent Downey, though the irony of his name had conjured up unfair images. He would be an effete, frail man with pale blond hair covering every inch of his body except for his head. His eyes would be weak, his skin rarely touched by the sun, and of course he would have drift in and out of places and never draw attention to himself.
When a fit man in shirtsleeves appeared and looked straight at me, I got up from my chair.