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The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5) QUOTES

The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5) QUOTES

1 " One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

2 " PEE-WEE BOXER SURVEYED THE JOBSITE WITH DISGUST. THE FOREMAN was a scumbag. The crew were a bunch of losers. Worst of all, the guy handling the Cat didn't know jack about hydraulic excavators. Maybe it was a union thing; maybe he was friends with somebody; either way, he was jerking the machine around like it was his first day at Queens Vo-Tech "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

3 " Boxer altered his course subtly, as if that was the way he'd already been going, not looking up to acknowledge he had heard, letting his attitude convey the contempt he felt for the scrawny foreman. He stopped in front of the guy, staring at the man's dusty little workboots. Small feet, small dick. Slowly, he glanced up. "Welcome to the world, Pee-Wee. Take a look at this. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

4 " Dr. Kelly, are you familiar with the term, ‘cabinet of curiosities’?” Nora wondered at the man’s ability to pile on non sequiturs. “Wasn’t it a kind of natural history collection?” “Precisely. It was the precursor to the natural history museum. Many "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

5 " talus "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

6 " There is an old French curse: may your fondest wish come true. If this treatment is cheap and available to everyone, it will destroy the earth through overpopulation. If it is dear and available only to the very rich, it will cause riots, wars, a breakdown of the social contract. Either way, it will lead directly to human misery. What is the value of a long life, when it is lived in squalor and unhappiness? "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

7 " If you’re honest with yourself, you can still feel the terrible weight of time pressing on you; that awful, relentless, bodily corruption that is happening constantly to us all. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

8 " I’m afraid I don’t suffer petty bureaucrats gladly. A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Nevertheless, you will find, Dr. Kelly, that humiliation and blackmail, when used judiciously, can be marvelously effective "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

9 " The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

10 " New York Public Library. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

11 " prolixity. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

12 " January 1881, "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

13 " the city. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

14 " P.S. 1984, "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

15 " TriBeCa. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

16 " P.S. 1984. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

17 " high school, "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

18 " the New York Public Library. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

19 " The whole city was on the verge of panic. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)

20 " The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. When you give an Einstein two centuries to perfect his science, you give a thousand others two centuries to perfect their brutality. "

― Douglas Preston , The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3, Nora Kelly #0.5)