“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
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“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, quote from Vanity Fair
“A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!”
― Richard Dawkins, quote from The God Delusion
“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee—”
― Emily Dickinson, quote from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and couldn’t die no matter how hard they tried.”
― Dalton Trumbo, quote from Johnny Got His Gun
“America, my love, you are sunlight falling through trees. You are laughter that breaks through sadness. You are the breeze on a too-war day. You are clarity in the midst of confusion.
You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.
You said that to get things right one of us would have to take a leap of faith. I think I've discovered the canyon that must be leaped, and I hope to find you waiting for me on the other side.
I love you, America.
Yours forever,
Maxon”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The One
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