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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 95afaca | If you have the golden chicken, the archaeologists don't want the chicken to produce any golden eggs, but the tourist guys, they want to cut it open to get all the eggs at once. There should be a balance. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 7c01fec | New York City had a short memory for violence, | Douglas Preston | ||
| bd6e670 | Resistance would be futile, and futility itself was, of course, to be resisted. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 6225a25 | It is all about how human beings construct a narrative out of random events, baseless assumptions, and simple-minded prejudices. | Douglas Preston | ||
| e9c41d6 | your personal | Douglas Preston | ||
| 3718c0c | An old poet, Robert Herrick, put it like this: " Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again." | Douglas Preston | ||
| ae8bca6 | Tyrannosaur Canyon Utopia The Codex Tales of the Dark 1-3 Ribbons of Time Dark | Douglas Preston | ||
| 2b8bdc7 | Project The Forgotten Room Impact The Third Gate The Monster of Florence Terminal Freeze (with Mario Spezi) Deep Storm | Douglas Preston | ||
| 0b135f8 | The buckskin shirt launched one of the most voracious collecting careers in American history. Heye became obsessed with all things Native American, and he would eventually amass a collection of a million pieces. In 1916, he established the Museum of the American Indian on upper Broadway in New York City to house his collection. (In 1990, the museum moved to Washington, DC, and became part of the Smithsonian.) Heye | Douglas Preston | ||
| 1004147 | I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 89cadf8 | I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 74c4a30 | Don't live in the past--you will know what you've lost but not what you've found? | Douglas Preston | ||
| 7f48dc3 | What you're suggesting is that Hezekiah's elixir caused epigenetic changes. Such changes can and do get passed down the generations. Environmental poisons are the leading cause of epigenetic changes. | Douglas Preston | ||
| ef148eb | chest. Everything looked strange and slow. Vernon bent over him. He felt him give his chest a big shove, and he felt his arms being raised. All at once the pressure seemed to break, and he coughed violently. Vernon rolled him to his side. He coughed, coughed again, felt a blinding icy headache take hold. Reality returned with a vengeance. Tom struggled to sit up. Vernon put his arms under his shoulders and supported him. "What happened?" "T.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| f0740a4 | The Maya built with stone, while this region had been extensively settled by a separate, sophisticated culture that built great earthen mounds. This was an entirely new culture. Even as Strong's work showed definitively that Mosquitia was not part of the Maya realm, however, his discoveries raised more questions than they answered. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 651fe67 | You could tell a lot about a person by meeting his brother. | Douglas Preston | ||
| fd57e01 | I hate crew cuts. | relatable | Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child | |
| 629ae47 | Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners. | pendergast preston scary | Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child | |
| 3abba3a | the shudder of fear is as sensual as the shudder of pleasure, if not more so. | Douglas Preston | ||
| d95961e | The dangers of exploring Mosquitia go beyond the natural deterrents. Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Eighty percent of the cocaine from South America destined for the United States is shipped through Honduras, most of it via Mosquitia. | Douglas Preston | ||
| eff1a3b | The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 269e3c6 | V liuboi moment vremeni ni odin muzhchina ne imeet prava revnovat' bol'she chem odnu zhenshchinu... esli tol'ko on ne puertorikanets | Mario Puzo | ||
| 17164bd | This inferno of contagion destroyed thousands of societies and millions of people, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, from California to New England, from the Amazon rainforest to the tundra of Hudson Bay. It is what destroyed T1, the City of the Jaguar, and the ancient people of Mosquitia. | Douglas Preston | ||
| df77ba1 | Peloponnesian | Douglas Preston | ||
| 435bb49 | Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 184a0f3 | As is typical of Maya inscriptions, not a single one at Copan mentions a commoner. Working folk had to build all those buildings. Farmers had to feed all those laborers along with the holy lords and nobles. This type of class division usually works when everyone believes they are part of a system, with each person occupying a valued place in society and contributing to the vital ceremonies that maintain the cosmic order. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 497f5bd | his face. Fenton was never one to like a slow day. The look was enough to tell Barnaby that something big had just come down. "Hutch?" "Hmmm?" Fenton went on, breathlessly. "The Broadbent place was robbed. I got one of the sons on the phone now." Hutch Barnaby didn't move a muscle. "Robbed of what?" "Everything." Fenton's black eyes glittered with relish. Barnaby sipped his coffee, sipped again, and then lowered his chair to the floor with .. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 64d855a | like having death poke his stinking mug into your face to make you think about things. | Douglas Preston | ||
| c15cfcb | He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 1ada798 | Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius--and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 217e49b | J. P. Morgan once said, "If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it." | Douglas Preston | ||
| ed7c4bf | The point of a cruise ship is the cruise itself. But an ocean liner's job is to transport people on a schedule. The | Douglas Preston | ||
| 1fdfbfd | Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 29727f8 | words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit." The dry, faintly ironic delivery" | Douglas Preston | ||
| ff7b848 | Perhaps the ghastliest disease endemic to mosquitia is Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis, sometimes called white leprosy, caused by the bite of an infected sand fly. The Leishmania parasite migrates to the mucus membranes of the victim's nose and lips and eats them away, eventually creating a giant, weeping sore where the face used to be. | face-eating gross honduras horrific insect-bites parasites sand-fly | Douglas Preston | |
| 38924a8 | irascible | Douglas Preston | ||
| 345e95e | He had done the right thing and that was what counted. That was the best you could do in life. How others took it was beyond his control. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 094c79e | specimens, wait until they've been examined, then put them back." "Bone librarian--a most apt description. How many visiting scientists" | Douglas Preston | ||
| 805c0e4 | imprecation | Douglas Preston | ||
| c8eabd8 | God bless the disgruntled employee--no one does more to bring openness to government. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 1e12bf4 | talus | Douglas Preston | ||
| 10d12cc | So I'm in the American Secret Service? Damn." "It was all reported in the press the next day." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 750631c | The town had a faint air of benign neglect that only added to its charm: a seaside village with white clapboard buildings, seagulls wheeling overhead, uneven brick sidewalks and local shops. They | Douglas Preston | ||
| a59db32 | She's more a daiquiri and margarita drinker.""We all have our flaws," said Pendergast." | Douglas Preston |