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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 417ceda | A series of droughts between AD 760 and 800 seem to have been the trigger for famine that hit the common people disproportionately hard. It was the last straw for a society teetering on the edge of alienation and conflict. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 7abe54d | He stepped back to let Pendergast do his thing, but he was surprised to see the agent not going through his usual rigmarole, with the test tubes and tweezers and loupes appearing out of nowhere and interminable fussing around. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 54e36b6 | The survivors are deprived of that vital human connection to their past; they are robbed of their stories, their music and dance, their spiritual practices and beliefs--they are stripped of their very identity. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 20b9e5f | Bending over the severed neck, his face less than an inch from the wound, he maneuvered his tweezers under the loupe, dug them into the neck--D'Agosta almost had to turn away--and stretched out what looked like a rubber band but was obviously a large vein. He snipped off a short piece and dropped it in a test tube, dug around some more, pulled out another vein, snipped and stored it, as well. And then he spent another several minutes examin.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| aaa5a8e | There are many essential police skills they don't teach you at the Academy," said Pendergast. "Ass covering, as it is so charmingly termed, being the most important." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 23bd967 | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints identified the Maya as one of the lost tribes of Israel, the Lamanites, as chronicled in The Book of Mormon, published in 1830. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 00e39bb | You," he began. "You bastards." Silence. "Where was the FBI these past four days? This was your fault--your fault!" His voice, starting out in a whisper, crescendoed by the end into a roar, spittle flecking his lips." | Douglas Preston | ||
| f544471 | Global warming has opened the southern door of the United States not just to leish but to many other diseases. The big ones now entering our country include Zika, West Nile virus, chikungunya, and dengue fever. Even diseases like cholera, Ebola, Lyme, babesiosis, and bubonic plague will potentially infect more people as global warming accelerates | Douglas Preston | ||
| 324c5ff | News of the murder had her all in a tizzy. | Douglas Preston | ||
| f8ff348 | The British geographer Linda Newson produced a magisterial study of the demographic catastrophe in Honduras during the Spanish period, entitled The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras Under Spanish Rule. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 9a8bbad | The people of Honduras don't have a clear cultural identity. We have to start learning more about our past in order to create a brighter future. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 8628677 | He was refreshingly, even alarmingly, direct | Douglas Preston | ||
| b2a648e | And what was he like? Did he have three heads?" "If he did, two must have been successfully removed in infancy." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 01a5902 | What was she doing working in a big museum, anyway, when she really should be tucked away in some semidetached house in the suburbs with a pack of squalling brats? Who was this husband she was allegedly so loyal to? Maybe the problem was she was rogering someone on the side already. Yes, that was probably it | Douglas Preston | ||
| 2f349c5 | The divide between the wealthy and everyone else is a false dichotomy--and one that obscures the real problem: there are many wicked people in the world, rich and poor. That is the real divide--between those who strive to do good, and those who strive only for themselves. Money magnifies the harm the wealthy can do, of course, allowing them to parade their vulgarity and malfeasance in full view of the rest of us. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 1a4a86b | God give me chastity, but not right now. | Douglas Preston | ||
| af48d35 | Pendergast moved with a feline grace, using the waxing moon as his only source of light | Douglas Preston | ||
| 8cd84a9 | Baba Ghanouj | Douglas Preston | ||
| d6ac023 | Mr. Ozmian," said Pendergast, in his quietest, smoothest voice, "we have bad news: your daughter is dead." The man looked as if he'd just been shot. He actually staggered and had to grip the side of a chair in order to keep himself upright. His face instantly drained of all color; his lips moved, but only an unintelligible whisper came out. He was like a dead man standing. He swayed again and D'Agosta took a step over to him, grasping his a.. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 76c9e4b | Not in my swamp, with my alligators. -Pendergast | pendergast | Douglas Preston | |
| 1be7731 | get something | Douglas Preston | ||
| 4b61c90 | You can not stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion. | monster-of-florence | Douglas Preston | |
| 803b8fc | I'm Sergeant John 'Granite' Dwayneson, chief Sergeant here at Lang Fort. | Daniel Schinhofen | ||
| 2161938 | Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles. | foreshadowing preparation | Mario Puzo | |
| 2527c4d | Phap luat va trat tu la cai gieng than de cac thay uong tung gau quyen luc, thoa man cac thay giong het nhu quyen luc ca nhan thoa man hau het moi nguoi. Mat khac, trong long cac thay thuong xuyen am i mot su bat man doi voi nhung nguoi ma ho phai phuc vu. Voi cac thay, thang dan vua la nguoi duoc che cho, vua la doi tuong. La nguoi duoc che cho, no rat vo on, tho tuc, hay be hanh be toi. La doi tuong no lai khoe quanh co va nguy hiem, day .. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 6914754 | La vengeance se mange tres-bien froide. (Original version of: "Revenge is a dish best served cold." Often misattributed to Mario Puzo.)" | the-godfather | Eugène Sue | |
| e4cdde7 | this place is full of shit. It's run by aliens from outer space. Sure, they make the food look Italian, they make it smell Italian, but it tastes like goo from Mars. | Mario Puzo | ||
| feb0742 | Great men have allied themselves with the angels at a terrible price to themselves. Evil men indulge their slightest whim for small satisfactions while accepting the fate of burning in Hell. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 9efe09b | Voi nhung nguoi ta yeu thuong thi khong the noi "khong" duoc, it ra la khong the noi thuong xuyen. Do la toan bo bi quyet. Con khi buoc phai noi thi can noi sao cho cai tu "khong" cua ta nghe nhu "co". Hoac lam sao de chinh nguoi khac phai noi voi ta cai tu "khong" do." | Mario Puzo | ||
| bc48195 | Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 525af5c | showing his gratitude. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 7de6f33 | Su tra thu la mot man an cang de nguoi cang ngon. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 3ccb82f | A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain. | life mario-puzo omerta pain | Mario Puzo | |
| 507b4ff | I'll tell you one thing you didn't learn from him: talking the way you're talking now. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it." Michael" | Mario Puzo | ||
| 79ad640 | Softly, reassuringly, he comforted his friend, as they waited for death together. As if the Don could truly snatch the life of Genco Abbandando back from that most foul and criminal traitor to man. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 82a4106 | It pleased him to see the hurt look on her face, the tears springing into her eyes. She might be a daughter of the Great Don but she was his wife, she was his property now and he could treat her as he pleased. It made him feel powerful that one of the Corleones was his doormat. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 8774463 | jak wlasciwie nalezalo zyc - szczesliwie czy moralnie? | Mario Puzo | ||
| 3e4fde9 | Drop the gun, pick up the cannoli | Mario Puzo | ||
| 18a137d | Le secret du bonheur est dans les petites choses. | John La Galite | ||
| 267367e | he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true. | truth | Robert Ferrigno | |
| 0c64936 | He knew that if he did not inform to the police a warm welcome would be his when he left prison. There would be a party waiting in his home, the best of food, homemade ravioli, wine, pastries, with all his friends and relatives gathered to rejoice in his freedom. And sometime during the night the Consigliori, Genco Abbandando, or perhaps even the Don himself, would drop by to pay his respects to such a stalwart, take a glass of wine in his .. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 579ce45 | Chang co gi kho hieu, khi nhung ke chay theo dong tien hon dam me nghe thuat lai keo dai duoc su nghiep hon, thanh nhung nguoi dang gia trong xa hoi, hon han nhung nghe si co gang trinh bay cai tia sang thanh thien cua con nguoi. Dang buon la nguoi ta khong the dung mot cuon phim ve nhung dieu do, ve cai dieu dong tien dang qui hon nghe thuat va tinh yeu. Nhung neu cuon phim duoc lam thi cung chang ai mua. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 64c5a73 | What's past is past," Gronevelt said. "Never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is." " | Mario Puzo | ||
| aa9e05a | Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo |