“He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“While dead men tell no tales, their corpses often speak volumes.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“New York City. Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“An old poet, Robert Herrick, put it like this: “ Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne’er be found again.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“Those who can’t do, teach, and those who can’t teach, critique.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“Don’t live in the past—you will know what you’ve lost but not what you’ve found?”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
“I’ve never seen a more contented smile on some people than at their own wake.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Brimstone
Douglas Preston
Born place: in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States
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“When I was a child I was told that whoever swallowed a hock-bone would one day own land," she said. "Have you tried that? I was told a sheep's hock-bone bought a croft, a cow's an estate.”
― Halldór Kiljan Laxness, quote from Iceland's Bell
“First of all, you have heard me talk of Logres. It was the old name for this country, thousands of years ago; in the old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all round us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. Nor ever will,” he added softly to himself, “for there is something of each in every man.”
― Susan Cooper, quote from Over Sea, Under Stone
“You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council wants them to say, too, if they like his face.”
― Richard Hughes, quote from A High Wind in Jamaica
“What had passed between Eleanor Harding and Mary Bold need not be told. It is indeed a matter of thankfulness that neither the historian nor the novelist hears all that is said by their heroes or heroines, or how would three volumes or twenty suffice!”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Warden
“Answers are bitter things, and once you get them, they’re yours and you can’t give them back. Did I want to know badly enough that I was willing to live with whatever answer she gave me?
-- Toby”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from An Artificial Night
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