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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6b2f155 | Lines from an old film came back to him unbidden: That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. You're an improbable person, and so am I. | Douglas Preston | ||
| aa4d7e2 | The third board popped off. The opening was now big enough to squeeze through. The dogs in town were barking hysterically. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 978f592 | She picked up the book she was reading, Beyond the Ice Limit, found her dog-eared place at the beginning of chapter six, and began to read. The sea horizon lay against the sky, blue against perfect blue, and it seemed to beckon the ship southward, ever southward. She closed the book, put it down again. Not bad, but it lacked the punch of the original. | Douglas Preston | ||
| bdb7c35 | All power structures, by their very nature, eventually get taken over by psychopaths. Almost all governments in the world have been taken over by gifted psychopaths who have a great command of human psychology and use normal people to their advantage. This race of pathological deviants can't feel compassion, they have no conscience. They have an insatiable need for power--and they rule the world. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 03419ad | She learned her first two signs five weeks later, on--let's see here--June 4, 1967. They were hug and me. On June 6, she spontaneously signed Hug me Jennie to Mrs. Archibald, her surrogate mother. Mrs. Archibald was under the impression that Jennie's first sign had been directed at her. I didn't correct that misapprehension. Why? I should suppose the reason's obvious. | Douglas Preston | ||
| f3d67c1 | to support this privileged class as long as they kept up their end of the bargain with effective rituals. But after 650, deforestation, erosion, and soil exhaustion began reducing crop yields. The working classes, the farmers and monument builders, may have suffered increasing hunger and disease, even as the rulers hogged an ever-larger share of resources. The society was heading for a crisis. Diamond writes: "We have to wonder why the king.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| bc27d19 | Waga tomo yasurakani", he said. Farewell, my friend." | grief-and-loss | Douglas Preston | |
| 0ff0417 | 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?" | pendergast still-life-with-crows witty | Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Still Life With Crows | |
| cce33a6 | people were like icebergs--most of what really went on, especially the ugliness, was submerged | Douglas Preston Lincoln Child | ||
| 8cbfdcb | In the most deadly variety of smallpox, the hemorrhagic form, called the bloody pox or black pox, the skin turns a deep purple or takes on a charred look, and comes off in sheets. The victim often "bleeds out," blood pouring from every orifice in the body. It is extremely contagious. Unlike most other viruses, smallpox can survive and remain virulent for months or years outside the body in clothing, blankets, and sickrooms." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 7246f61 | I have my books. I don't live in the actual world. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 12dcda6 | To put that statistic into personal terms, make a list of the nineteen people closest to you: All but one will die. (This | Douglas Preston | ||
| ad74835 | The ultimate offense was the idea that Europeans "discovered" the New World to begin with, as if the people living here didn't exist before Europeans saw them." | Douglas Preston | ||
| f2c975c | Nobody knows what language is. It isn't just speech, that's for sure. But try to explain that to some of these reductionist structural linguists. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 094ae16 | When I walk to the pulpit on a Sunday and see my parishioners seated so properly in their rows, so neatly dressed, so assured and expectant, I am filled with a sense of panic. I have not done what I set out to do. In forty years, what have I given these people? Only a sense of complacency? | Douglas Preston | ||
| 86c0ff2 | Behind Hagedorn's back, Kawakita had nicknamed the administrator "Stumpy." Only Margo and a few of Frock's other graduate students had known the name referred not to Hagedorn's diminutive size, but to Stumpiniceps troglodytes, a particularly mundane kind of bottom-feeder that populated the oceans of the Carboniferous period." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 0c61171 | To one side, a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, polished to a gem-like brilliance, sat on a flatbed trailer, ready to be taken to its new owner. Constance looked from Pendergast to the Rolls and back again. "I really don't need two, you know," he said." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 77cb217 | William Duncan Strong was a scholar, a man ahead of his time: quiet, careful and meticulous in his work, averse to spectacle and publicity. He was among the first to establish that Mosquitia had been inhabited by an ancient, unknown people who were not Maya. Strong spent five months traversing Honduras in 1933, going by dugout canoe up the Rio Patuca and several of its tributaries. He kept an illustrated journal, which is preserved in the S.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 594defa | Russo drew his service revolver and pointed it at Jennie. Sandy, of course, went berserk, screaming and grabbing at the gun and wrapping himself around Jennie. He called Russo the most horrid names, fascist pig and that sort of thing. It must have been just awful, thinking this moron was going to shoot Jennie. I'm sure he would have if Sandy hadn't stopped him. Sandy saved Jennie's life. | Douglas Preston | ||
| eb461e1 | 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 | ||
| cb392a2 | 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." | Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child | ||
| 3901e3a | I feel like I'm rolling a ball of shit up an endless mountain." "My dear Vincent, Sisyphus would be proud." | Douglas Preston | ||
| d856e3e | In the twentieth century the Mormon Church sent a number of well-funded archaeologists to Mexico and Central America to try to confirm the stories through site excavations. Although this resulted in valuable, high-quality research, it also proved difficult for the scientists themselves; facing clear evidence that disproved the Mormon view of history, some of the archaeologists ended up losing their faith, and a few of those who voiced their.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 5f682a6 | Jennie taught me just how worthless that is. Being smart. Jennie wasn't smart by human standards, but she had a set of values. Real values. You see, for Jennie, freedom was the highest value. Language gave Jennie freedom. Although I didn't know it at the time, she taught me the real meaning of the word "freedom," not the bullshit meaning you get from politicians and priests." | Douglas Preston | ||
| d054eb2 | Charles backed down. He is reputed to have said, Capon, Capon, vous etes un mauvais chapon. 'Capon, Capon, you are one evil chicken.' " "Chicken jokes are quite prevalent in the family," the countess said. The count said, "We eat capons at Christmas. It's a little cannibalistic." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 421e846 | She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry. | Douglas Preston | ||
| a5f9f80 | the value of work? Have I taught them self-reliance? Have I taught them to take care of each | Douglas Preston | ||
| fea58b3 | And what better place to sow vengeance--to, quite literally, turn Gotham into a City of Endless Night? | Douglas Preston | ||
| 987f9b7 | When the team excavated, they uncovered the shattered ruins of a fortress, over fifteen centuries old, with massive walls and eight towers, matching the description in the Koran. They also figured out what had happened: The constant removal of water from the watering hole undermined the fortress, which one day collapsed into a sinkhole and was buried by drifting sands. The legend recorded in the Koran was based on a real event. | Douglas Preston | ||
| bb34183 | who the heck is dorothy gale? | Douglas Preston | ||
| af93b9a | nothing motivated a person quite as much as the desire for vengeance. | Douglas Preston | ||
| c39e9d8 | In the distance he could see the Cape May lighthouse winking, one short, one long. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 6832cb8 | 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 | douglas preston & lincoln child | ||
| acd1e58 | Boxer altered his course subtly, as if that was the way he'd already been going, not looking up to acknowledge he had heard, letting his attitude convey the contempt he felt for the scrawny foreman. He stopped in front of the guy, staring at the man's dusty little workboots. Small feet, small dick. Slowly, he glanced up. "Welcome to the world, Pee-Wee. Take a look at this." | douglas preston | ||
| 8d8558b | Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge? | Mario Puzo | ||
| 18d07b2 | Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. | Mario Puzo | ||
| a9eaaa6 | destiny had decided that he was to become a Don and had brought Fanucci to him to set him on his destined path. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 9cad063 | Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked. | humor | Mario Puzo | |
| 4094a3e | Bija prieks atkal pieversties rakstisanai ar galvu, kas skaidra no kokaina un patiesas milestibas. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 96efc55 | Vinas ista dzive bija lomas, ko vina teloja, vina jutas dzivaka, kad iedvesa dzivibu savos telos, nesaja tos sevi, kamer pati dzivoja savu parasto dzivi. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 8188acc | Writing, like gambling, was always a big part of my life," he used to say. "Both gave me sanctuary from the world. And you never really had to kill someone to get what you wanted. You just had to beat fate." | Mario Puzo | ||
| 6105513 | Viriesiem sekss vajadzigs, lai sagatavotos doties kauja ar pasapzinu. Sievietem sekss vajadzigs zaudejuma bedu remdesanai vai ka dala no uzvaras gandarijuma. | Mario Puzo | ||
| aed8f64 | Es rikojos ka man ir vislabak. Un vislabak ir but vienkarsam. Pavisam, pavisam vienkarsam. Un, kad vajag ko ipasu, tam jabut pavisam, pavisam ipasam. | Mario Puzo | ||
| fb57e1e | Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys. | hard-boiled men-s-adventure pulp-fiction walter-kaylin | Mario Puzo |