“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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“Morphic field. That's what it's called when a certain kind of energy pattern is repeated over and over until it creates something like an aura. This prison, for example. All of the hatred, ignorance, pain, humiliation, and greed constantly being put out by everyone here has created one hell of a negative morphic field. The thing about morphic fields is that they behave like magnets. Like attracts like. It draws more of the same energy to itself, and it touches everyone who comes here. The people who come to see me immediately feel disgust, anger, and repugnance for the kind of people they have to deal with here. It also explains why every new batch of guards who come to work here are a little more brutal and ignorant than the last. As the morphic field grows increasingly worse, it draws in the kind of people who resonate with it.”
― Damien Echols, quote from Life After Death
“A man is a business failure if he lets his family life interfere with his business record,”
― Daniel Yergin, quote from The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
“Nỗi buồn chiến tranh trong lòng người lính có cái gì tựa như nỗi buồn của tình yêu, như nỗi nhớ nhung quê nhà, như biển sầu lúc chiều buông trên bến sông bát ngát. Nghĩa là buồn, là nhớ, là niềm đau êm dịu, có thể làm cho người ta bay bổng lên trong thời gian quá khứ, tuy nhiên với điều kiện không được dừng nỗi buồn chiến trận lại ở cụ thể một điểm nào, một sự việc nào, một con người nào, bởi vì khi dừng phắt lại thì không còn là nỗi buồn nữa mà là sự xé đau trong lòng, và nhất là đừng có nhớ chạm tới những cái chết.”
― Bảo Ninh, quote from The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
“when the only thing he’s heard for the last hour is the snort of a horse and his own toots.”
― Andrew Peterson, quote from On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
“I can't ever lose what I just felt." He kissed my cheek. "I'm afraid if I did, I'd come looking for you too. I'm afraid I can relate...to him.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Sins & Needles
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