147 Quotes by Douglas Preston

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.

She’s more a daiquiri and margarita drinker.”“We all have our flaws,” said Pendergast.

Even the charms of paradise can pale with time.

My idle curiosity might lead to something more official, if the lieutenant feels his work is being hindered by an officious, small-minded, self-important bureaucrat. Not you, of course. I speak in general terms only.

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.

Those who can’t do, teach, and those who can’t teach, critique.

A 90 percent mortality rate is high enough: It does not just kill people; it annihilates societies; it destroys languages, religions, histories, and cultures. It chokes off the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.

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.

The tree crowns were packed together like puffballs, displaying every possible hue, tint, and shade of green. Chartreuse, emerald, lime, aquamarine, teal, bottle, glaucous, asparagus, olive, celadon, jade, malachite – mere words are inadequate to express the chromatic infinities.