136 Quotes by Brad Meltzer

...this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read.

...if you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best...""and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

History is simply what's behind us.

...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.

History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one can argue with...

I spend every day showing people the power of history. But history only has the power you give it.