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Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box. — Douglas Preston

I hate crew cuts. — Douglas Preston

Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you've got - to just live life. — Douglas Preston

Perhaps it's not a matter of unimportant sites, but unimportant archaeologists. — Douglas Preston

Retribution is just outstanding. — Douglas Preston

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back. — Douglas Preston

I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge — Douglas Preston

Words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit. The dry, faintly ironic delivery — Douglas Preston

I am indeed sorry to say this, but I fear your microscopic problems do not interest me. — Douglas Preston

people were like icebergs--most of what really went on, especially the ugliness, was submerged — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. — Douglas Preston

The value of work? Have I taught them self-reliance? Have I taught them to take care of each — Douglas Preston

Fire is often the weapon of choice for the insane. — Douglas Preston

i do not know why it is, vincent, but there are certain people in positions of power who take pleasure in obstructing others — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large. — Douglas Preston

Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners. — Douglas Preston

nothing motivated a person quite as much as the desire for vengeance. — Douglas Preston

there was no reason why having a high iq would somehow protect you from the vicissitudes of life — Douglas Preston

God give me chastity, but not right now. — Douglas Preston

We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen. Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea — Douglas Preston

Does a toilet seat get ass? — Douglas Preston

Mrs. Trask turned to him. When Mr. Pendergast asks for something, we do not say no. — Douglas Preston

accomplices. This helped assure that the crowd would now move on to the next stage of the sound-and-light show - which — Douglas Preston

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning. — Douglas Preston

Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers. — Douglas Preston

I have often found it true that the louder a person speaks, the less they have to say. — Douglas Preston

So I'm in the American Secret Service? Damn."
"It was all reported in the press the next day. — Douglas Preston

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

satan is a christian creation and you can keep him, thank you! — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing. — Douglas Preston

I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece. — Douglas Preston

to authorize that personally. — Douglas Preston

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual. — Douglas Preston

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. — Douglas Preston

if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks — Douglas Preston

You cannot 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. — Douglas Preston

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable. — Douglas Preston

This was an intentional frame. — Douglas Preston

he didn't murder Charles Duchamp, and he didn't murder Michael Decker. His — Douglas Preston

Jennie confirmed my suspicions that television advertising is directed mainly at people with the iq of a pongid — Douglas Preston

I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers." "How's that?" "Because truth is the safest lie. — Douglas Preston

Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior. — Douglas Preston

The shudder of fear is as sensual as the shudder of pleasure, if not more so. — Douglas Preston

Like having death poke his stinking mug into your face to make you think about things. — Douglas Preston

You just put your boot so far up his ass, he'll have to eat his dinner with a shoehorn." "I can always count on you for a suitable bon mot. — Douglas Preston

What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. — Douglas Preston

because it's not enough to have a dream - you need financing. — Douglas Preston

Hubris and science are incompatible. — Douglas Preston

nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules. — Douglas Preston

Project The Forgotten Room Impact The Third Gate The Monster of Florence Terminal Freeze (with Mario Spezi) Deep Storm — Douglas Preston

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

You could tell a lot about a person by meeting his brother. — Douglas Preston

Don't live in the past - you will know what you've lost but not what you've found? — Douglas Preston

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows. — Douglas Preston

While dead men tell no tales, their corpses often speak volumes. — Douglas Preston

I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction. — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark. — Douglas Preston

The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology. — Douglas Preston

The third board popped off. The opening was now big enough to squeeze through. The dogs in town were barking hysterically. — Douglas Preston

was afraid you wouldn't be permitted to leave the country for ages. — Douglas Preston

He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist. — Douglas Preston

But we were just picnicking friends — Douglas Preston

I don't know jack about wine, sorry." "You should learn. It is one of the true and ancient pleasures that make human existence tolerable. — Douglas Preston

anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser. — Douglas Preston

Launches the reader into a story of science and ancient mystery that will blow your mind: [From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston] — Douglas Preston

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. — Douglas Preston

God bless us, everyone," Smithback intoned. Margo punched him playfully. — Douglas Preston

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind. — Douglas Preston

There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. I prefer hypocrisy to poverty. — Douglas Preston

I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul. — Douglas Preston

who the heck is dorothy gale? — Douglas Preston

When you lose, don't lose the lesson. — Douglas Preston

The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable. — Douglas Preston

guard posts and triple fencing had been bolstered by cutting-edge instrumentation, including laser-beam "lattices — Douglas Preston

Lead me into all misfortune. Only by that path can I transform the negative into the positive. — Douglas Preston

The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked. — Douglas Preston

There is nothing inherently wrong about science. — Douglas Preston

How awful a knowledge of the truth can be. — Douglas Preston

New York City. Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again. — Douglas Preston

The little town of Stormhaven struggled up the hill, narrow clapboard houses following a zigzag of cobblestone lanes. — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber. — Douglas Preston

Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one. — Douglas Preston

J. P. Morgan once said, If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it. — Douglas Preston

a walther ppk. you're a james bond fan, i imagine.... — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

There is a mountain range behind the town, called the Sierra de Sangre de Cristo. It means the 'Blood of Christ Mountains' in Spanish. — Douglas Preston

D'Agosta had long ago learned, when working with Pendergast, to never get caught without two things: a gun and a flashlight. — Douglas Preston

Sometimes not knowing can be a lot worse than knowing - even if knowing proves to be very painful. — Douglas Preston

Well ... The old servant hesitated. D'Agosta wanted — Douglas Preston

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

intentional: if you meddle in our affairs, we'll — Douglas Preston

the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the books Vernon had brought, a thriller called utopia. — Douglas Preston

Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed. — Douglas Preston