“Do what? Kill me? Then my blood would be on your hands—more than it already is—as well as that of your four dear friends. Because you, frater, are responsible for all this. You know it. You made me what I am.” “I made you nothing.” “Well said! Well said!” A dry, almost desiccated laugh came over the tiny speaker. Listening,”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“Resistance would be futile, and futility itself was, of course, to be resisted.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“You could tell a lot about a person by meeting his brother.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
Douglas Preston
Born place: in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States
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“I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.”
― R.J. Anderson, quote from Ultraviolet
“Everything was ready to go. Except for her.”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Tidal
“And what is love, Angel? What is love! he yelled. Is it a pressure inside that makes me want to scream when you do this? he palmed his chest roughly, Is it my body in constant chaos when you're around me? Is it murder in cold blood when I even think of you being with anybody but me! he roared. Or maybe it's not being able to think or speak when your life is in danger, or wanting to spend every second - of every - fucking day with you, wanting to never leave your side. Is that love? Is it, Isadore? He drew closer and hit his fist repeatedly against his chest. Is it pain so hard and heavy that I can't fucking breathe unless I smell you, touch you, taste you? His body heaved as his bright green gaze seared her heart. Because if it is, Angel...he held his lips together and shook his head slowly, then I am....slain with an eternal and violent love for you.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Judgement
“The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks.
This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Bluebeard
“But what, without the social thought of thee,
Would be the wonders of the sky and sea?”
― John Keats, quote from The Complete Poems
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