“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
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“I'd really like to write. Just write, whether it's for magazines or books, whatever. Not necessarily deep and meaningful, but just something that someone can enjoy.”
― Lindsey Kelk, quote from I Heart New York
“Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.”
― Damien Echols, quote from Life After Death
“Oil men, like producers of other raw materials, could not continue to sell their products below cost...For prices to be raised, production had to be controlled, and to bring production under control, Ickes began with an all-out campaign against the "hot oiler,"...This bootleg oil was secretly siphoned off from pipelines, hidden in camouflaged tanks that were covered with weeds, moved about both in an intrcate network of secret pipelines and by trucks, and then smuggled across state borders at night.”
― Daniel Yergin, quote from The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
“Dĩ nhiên, Kiên nghĩ, quên thật là khó. Nói chung chẳng biết đến bao giờ thì lòng mình mới có thể nguội nổi, trái tim mình mới thoát khỏi gọng bàn tay xiết chặt của những kỷ niệm chiến tranh. Những kỷ niệm có thể là êm đềm, có thể là ác hại nhưng đều để lại những vết thương mà tới bây giờ một năm đã qua, hay mười năm, hay hai mươi năm nữa vẫn còn đau, đau mãi. Có thể từ rày cuộc đời anh sẽ luôn luôn như thế này chăng: tối tăm, đau khổ nhưng rạng ngời hạnh phúc?”
― Bảo Ninh, quote from The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
“Lad, it's one thing to be poor in pocket - nothing wrong with that. But poor in heart - that's no good.”
― Andrew Peterson, quote from On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
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