“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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“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”
― Edith Wharton, quote from The Age of Innocence
“no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.”
― R.J. Palacio, quote from Wonder
“Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Lover Awakened
“Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you.”
― William Gibson, quote from Neuromancer
“I learned a long time ago we’ve control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn’t belong to us. It’s out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
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