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The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.
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What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child |
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He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.
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Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child |
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The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
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Lincoln Child |
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I'm afraid I don't suffer petty bureaucrats gladly. A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Nevertheless, you will find, Dr. Kelly, that humiliation and blackmail, when used judiciously, can be marvelously effective
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Already up to his waist in the quaking bog, Pendergast stopped struggling and stared up at his assassin. The icy glitter in the pale gray eyes spoke more eloquently of his hatred and despair than any words he might have spoken, and it shook Esterhazy to the core.
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Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.
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Lincoln Child |
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you shall learn, if you haven't already, that in life insubordination is not only necessary but even, at times, exhilarating.
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Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child |
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Don't you love that phrase,
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to be a witness to evil is to be human.
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Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child |
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what's a tomb without a curse?
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Pendergast," Ridder said. His voice was low and very, very cold. Despite herself, Corrie shivered when she saw the look on his face. Pendergast stopped. "Yes?"
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pendergast
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Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Still Life With Crows |
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people were like icebergs--most of what really went on, especially the ugliness, was submerged
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every single decent lead has gone to hell. I feel like I'm rolling a ball of shit up an endless mountain." "My dear Vincent, Sisyphus would be proud."
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PEE-WEE BOXER SURVEYED THE JOBSITE WITH DISGUST. THE FOREMAN was a scumbag. The crew were a bunch of losers. Worst of all, the guy handling the Cat didn't know jack about hydraulic excavators. Maybe it was a union thing; maybe he was friends with somebody; either way, he was jerking the machine around like it was his first day at Queens Vo-Tech
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And yet it was not authentic, of course, because no real boardwalk of 1910 had been this perfect. It was like a fondly remembered nostalgic confection, a past sanitized of its imperfections, buttressed by an arsenal of hidden technology.
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Lincoln Child |
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We have, what, 66,000-odd guests here today? And not one of them retains even an infant's sense of self-preservation. They checked their fight-or-flight instincts at the door. That's what they're paying for. They see a fire, hear an explosion, feel their roller coaster begin to shear off its track--what are they gonna do? Laugh all the harder. Because they think it's part of the act. That makes every last one of them a sitting duck.
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Lincoln Child |
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If you are going to walk on thin ice, he said, you might as well dance.
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Lincoln Child |
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And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I'm about to speak--though I speak them with some regret, since I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain't no Nessie." This"
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Lincoln Child |
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satan is a christian creation and you can keep him, thank you!
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Douglas Preston Lincoln Child |
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The little town of Stormhaven struggled up the hill, narrow clapboard houses following a zigzag of cobblestone lanes.
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Douglas Preston Lincoln Child |
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a walther ppk. you're a james bond fan, i imagine....
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Douglas Preston Lincoln Child |
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I hate crew cuts.
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relatable
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Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners.
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preston
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as corrie was about to hang up, stacy said, "i hope he shoots at my car. i've got a couple of black talon rounds just itching to explore his inner psyche."
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