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Reliquary (Pendergast, #2) QUOTES

Reliquary (Pendergast, #2) QUOTES

1 " Behind Hagedorn’s back, Kawakita had nicknamed the administrator “Stumpy.” Only Margo and a few of Frock’s other graduate students had known the name referred not to Hagedorn’s diminutive size, but to Stumpiniceps troglodytes, a particularly mundane kind of bottom-feeder that populated the oceans of the Carboniferous period. "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

2 " tape "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

3 " I have often found it true that the louder a person speaks, the less they have to say. "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

4 " Police Scuba team's unofficial motto: We dive in shit and look for dead things. "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

5 " Humboldt Kill dive. "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

6 " SDS remnants, "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

7 " his oxygen tanks "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

8 " incipient scurvy. If they can’t take vitamin D "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

9 " Already, Margo had noticed the early buildup for next year’s blockbuster exhibition, 21st Century Plagues. "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

10 " Crazy damn job, looking for dead bodies. "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

11 " No crazier than killing Vietcong or packing explosives under some poor bastard’s hull, "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

12 " We don’t just look for dead bodies. That day, we were actually looking for a cache of heroin somebody’d thrown off a bridge. "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

13 " The Mole People, by Jennifer Toth (Chicago Review Press, 1993). "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

14 " Just the whole city watching, "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

15 " PS 362. "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

16 " fractal "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

17 " VANDERBILT "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

18 " New York City without "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

19 " Arthur Kill, "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

20 " Occam’s razor. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. "

― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)