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Bloodless (Pendergast, #20) QUOTES

Bloodless (Pendergast, #20) QUOTES

1 " Coldmoon saw the early-morning glow of a café spilling onto the sidewalk and swerved toward it, not even bothering to ask his partner’s opinion. It was 6am and the café had apparently just opened.
“My dear Coldmoon—“ began Pendergast.
“If I don’t get some coffee,” said Coldmoon loudly, “I’m going to die.”
“Very well,” said Pendergast. “I wouldn’t want another corpse on my hands. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

2 " Beware the dog that does not bark, and the man who does not talk. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

3 " The idea of sticking the body deep in the earth when you wanted the soul to go up, not down, always seemed perverse to him. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

4 " She turned her violet eyes on him and quoted. “‘Not only is the universe stranger than we suppose, it is stranger than we can suppose.’” “And whose deathless pearl of wisdom was that?” “Heisenberg, some say.” “You mean the guy in Breaking Bad?” Constance issued a low, mirthless laugh. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

5 " She wondered how a guy like Drayton could generate a turnout this big and enthusiastic. There was something about him a certain type of person loved, it seemed. She just couldn’t see it. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

6 " Lieutenant D’Agosta "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

7 " As he scrolled through the files, Masolino noticed that this guy, Ellerby, hadn’t encrypted them. This was a pretty good hint that what he had been doing was probably legal. Of course, that wasn’t saying much: a lot of the dishonest, manipulative, sleazy shit that traders did was legal, which was the main reason why Masolino didn’t personally invest in the market. The last thing he wanted to be was another chump. If small-time investors knew how they were being reamed out by the big boys every day, they’d never invest again. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

8 " like me, you prefer the company of fine books to that of other people. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

9 " A mosquito head with huge bug eyes and an oily feeding tube was affixed to a monstrous, batlike body the color of liver. The wings were webbed with engorged blood vessels, and from its belly hung two rows of hairy, withered dugs. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

10 " The last thing he wanted to be was another chump. If small-time investors knew how they were being reamed out by the big boys every day, they’d never invest again. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

11 " Coldmoon shook his head. The case had gone from being open, to closed, to open again, so fast he felt almost dizzy. “Let this be a lesson to you, my friend, on the dangers of drawing conclusions too early,” Pendergast told him. “As H. L. Mencken once said, ‘There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.’ This was that neat, plausible, and wrong solution. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

12 " the southern gothic trappings, the rumors and whispers, were too delicious to ruin with the winter wind of truth. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

13 " an Enigma machine, a set of gears of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine, a "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

14 " meant he must have left it in his room. Exactly as Wellstone hoped. A few more people joined the entourage; they milled around outside "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

15 " The elderly matron looked at him as if he’d just given her a pearl necklace. “Really? "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

16 " Rather than rushing to tear things down during the architectural vandalism period of the 1950s and ’60s, Savannah had preserved its link with the past, which in a personal way spoke to Constance and her own peculiar connection to distant times. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

17 " The waitresses were talking in low tones, but not so low that she could not catch what they said. She casually recorded the relevant employee names and details in the squares of her crossword with an antique gold pencil. After a quarter of an hour, Constance contrived to knock the dish of clotted cream off her table. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

18 " Alas, his efforts to create predictive AI ended in failure. The world is ruled by chaos, and human behavior is too complex. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

19 " He reminds me of Paul Revere’s ride,” the waitress said from behind the counter. “A little light in the belfry. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)

20 " Information is like electricity; it powers the light that allows us to see our way forward. "

― Douglas Preston , Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)