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1 " Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed. "
― Lincoln Child
2 " The simplest explanation is most often the correct one. "
― Lincoln Child , The Third Gate (Jeremy Logan, #3)
3 " Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this. "
― Lincoln Child , The Forgotten Room (Jeremy Logan, #4)
4 " And yet it was not authentic, of course, because no real boardwalk of 1910 had been this perfect. It was like a fondly remembered nostalgic confection, a past sanitized of its imperfections, buttressed by an arsenal of hidden technology. "
― Lincoln Child , Utopia
5 " We have, what, 66,000-odd guests here today? And not one of them retains even an infant’s sense of self-preservation. They checked their fight-or-flight instincts at the door. That’s what they’re paying for. They see a fire, hear an explosion, feel their roller coaster begin to shear off its track—what are they gonna do? Laugh all the harder. Because they think it’s part of the act. That makes every last one of them a sitting duck. "
6 " If you are going to walk on thin ice, he said, you might as well dance. "
― Lincoln Child , Terminal Freeze (Jeremy Logan, #2)
7 " And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I’m about to speak—though I speak them with some regret, since I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain’t no Nessie.” This "
8 " Don’t you love that phrase, a person of interest? So rich with dark suggestion, so full of murky hints—without actually saying anything at all. "
9 " Did he find the heifer?" Pendergast asked.The question threw Winifred off. Nobody asked about the heifer. "
10 " I could never lose you as a best friend because if I ever did I would have lost my best friend, my soul mate, my smile, my laugh, my everything. "
11 " Let me tell you: the shudder of fear is as sensual as the shudder of pleasure, if not more so. "
12 " Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.’ "
13 " discoveries: a burial pit in Wales that contained the remains of what most scholars agreed was the first-century English queen Boadicea. She had been found buried in an ancient war chariot, surrounded by weapons, golden armbands, and other trinkets. "
14 " He took a sip from his own water glass. "
15 " The Devil’s interval”, Logan murmured.She looked at him. “I’m sorry?”“The flatted fifth. G flat, for example, over C. It was a particular interval between two notes banned from church music in the Renaissance for it’s supposedly evil influence. "
16 " exotrophic. "
― Lincoln Child , Deep Storm (Jeremy Logan, #1)
17 " Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. "
18 " Logan chose a Michelob Light. "
― Lincoln Child , Full Wolf Moon (Jeremy Logan, #5)
19 " Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.’ ” Mykolos "
20 " Military-grade laser,” Conti said. “Very powerful, yet more precise than a jeweler’s file. "
