“What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“Margo, zise Frock, râzând încetișor, ceea ce avem noi aici este o ghicitoare, înfășurată într-un mister din interiorul unei enigme.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“New York City had a short memory for violence,”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“You see, when someone says “it’s impossible,’ I have this very bad habit, I can’t help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“The three-million-dollar Omega-9 Parallel Processing Computer, which took up a series of large gray boxes along one wall, was now completely silent.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
Douglas Preston
Born place: in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States
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“...a pretty little minnow...cool as rain, blue as heaven...”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The River King
“She gets to the bottom of the stairs, and I lift her off the ground and kiss her. As I lower her back to her feet she says, ‘Mmm, nice. That’s gonna score you some points with the parents.’ I look into the stands and see her parents standing there, slack-jawed, Dad with a camera perched, forgotten, in his hand. And Grandpa is laughing. ‘So what’s the plan?’ ‘I’m working on it. But I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include molesting me in front of them.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
“One thing I have never understood is how to work it so that when you're married, things keep happening to you. Things happen to you when you're single. You meet new men, you travel alone, you learn new tricks, you read Trollope, you try sushi, you buy nightgowns, you shave your legs. Then you get married, and the hair grows in. I love the everydayness of marriage, I love figuring out what's for dinner and where to hang the pictures and do we owe the Richardsons, but life does tend to slow to a crawl.”
― Nora Ephron, quote from Heartburn
“Every once in a while you just have to decide to something very crazy and very right-- just dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive-- just something fun and good and beautiful.”
― Regina Doman, quote from The Shadow of the Bear
“But how to fight with singers, how to win a gift that could only be given freely—those were questions whose answers could not be found.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Songmaster
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