“Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
“I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. There’s probably a third category—the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but I’ve never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they don’t try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
“Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
“Somehow, amid all the sophistication and diversions of this world, we forgot the basics: take care of business at home first, and never betray your blood.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
“The American dream was not supposed to look like this, and when men went off the war, too often other men came in the night to the bedroom at the back of the long, narrow trailers. In fact, I had lived there and had gone off to war, and someone took of my place in the bed and took of my young wife. But that was few wars ago, and so much has happened since , that the only lingering bitterness left is that the bastard also took my dog.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
“It’s a problem, you know, Paul, dealing with stupid people. You project your own intelligence and rationality onto a person who is a complete idiot, and he lets you down.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
“I know who didn’t kill her.” “Don’t”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
“Well, the more I learn, the less motivation I can find for Colonel Moore to kill his subordinate. On the other hand, I see that other people could have strong motives.”
Kent looked exasperated, and he said, “Paul, I understand what you’re doing up to a point, and so will everyone else. But you’ve passed that point, and if you don’t arrest Moore now and he turns out to be the killer, and the FBI arrests him, then you look really stupid.”
“I know that, Bill. But if I do arrest him and he’s not the killer, I look worse than stupid.”
“Show some balls.”
“Fuck you.”
“Hey! You’re speaking to a superior officer.”
“Fuck you, sir.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
“Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out
more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
Nelson DeMille
Born place: New York, NY, The United States
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“It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, quote from Goodbye Tsugumi
“Come with me. Help me tonight. Help me save others. - Black Knife”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Orphan Queen
“Why does anyone fall in love with anyone? I don’t believe we each have some single special person waiting for us out there, if that’s what you’re getting at. I’ve been in love too many times over the years to buy into that old canard. It’s more a question of timing you know? As if we all have these elaborate locks inside our hearts that are constantly changing shape, and every once in a while, someone happens along with the perfect key. Love is nothing more than a fortuitous collision of circumstances. And then you discover you’ve ended up spending fifty years with someone.”
― Tommy Wallach, quote from Thanks for the Trouble
“During the Trinity test of the very first atom bomb, Fermi wondered if the detonation would ignite the Earth’s atmosphere. They just didn’t know, you see. We think the quantum disruption won’t propagate. If it does, then the whole universe gets converted into energy.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Judas Unchained
“He saw the irresistible allure of high school sports, but he also saw an inevitable danger in adults’ living vicariously through their young. And he knew of no candle that burned out more quickly than that of the high school athlete.”
― H.G. Bissinger, quote from Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
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