Quotes from Douglas E. Richards

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present. —Unknown

The longest tunnel ever constructed, the Delaware Aqueduct, had been completed in 1945, and ran eighty-five miles through solid rock, delivering half of the water used in New York City each day.

You almost had to feel sorry for women trying to make it to the top of the crime world—they had a tougher road. I mean, a woman would have to murder twice as many people in cold blood as a man to get to the top, and much more viciously. It really wasn't fair to these corrupt, soulless, psychopathic women. But, hey, I didn't make the rules.

Why? For lack of anything else to do with their time. Because they were impulsive and not bright enough to even understand the importance of birth control. And because the more kids they had, the bigger the welfare checks and food stamp handouts they received.

So if you were hoarding something worthless, it would be a slap on the wrist," said Megan. "But since they found out you were hoarding something of incredible value, you're screwed.

Which means he has tech that can block his image from registering on cameras.

If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of dust, and the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.

In fact, erythropoietin, a hormone that stimulated red blood cell production, and thus increased oxygen-carrying capacity, was well known for its ability to confer dramatic increases in endurance. This hormone had long been used as a doping drug by athletes, most notably Lance Armstrong, but was only a tiny fraction as effective as Ella's respirocytes.

a full-fledged addiction?" "When it becomes uncontrollable.

This was contrasted with a scene in which two prissy, high-IQ professionals were discussing having children. They both agreed that having children was an important decision and that they needed to wait for the right time, since child bearing wasn't something that should be rushed into. Ultimately, they died childless. The moral: the dimwitted and impulsive might not be able to hold a job or learn algebra, but they sure knew how to screw each other—and reproduce like crazy.

cell phones were the ultimate distraction, carefully designed and evolved to become as addictive as possible.

Love was a lizard brain instinct. A survival mechanism bred into the species that was totally separate from reason. Women were extremely vulnerable during pregnancy, and children were helpless for many years. If humans didn't have a mechanism for cementing a pair bond, nothing would remain but selfishness and promiscuity. Certain animal species were wired in the same way. How

Mainly due to social media," replied Brad. "It's the most divisive technology the world has ever seen. It's polarizing and promotes our worst tendencies. Mistrust, tribalism, zealotry. And it fosters and aids in the mobilization of those intent on violence.

I demanded. "Good question. All we know is that she's vanished without a trace.

The word dark is a misnomer, since it implies that lack of light is the problem, that if you could just shine a flashlight on dark matter you could see it. But this stuff can't be detected by our current science. Period.

What do want with us?

Thomas Paine had written, "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

infinite intelligence who fragmented Himself to experience existence—to

Reed had never seen Allie so mesmerized, and for good reason.

empathic ability, without ensuring that psychopathic tendencies didn't come along for the ride.

Most cosmologists agree that dark matter and dark energy make up ninety-five percent of the universe. The parts we can detect, the hundreds of billions of galaxies filled with hundreds of billions of stars and planets, represent only five percent of the total.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. —Albert Camus

Blake set his phone to speaker, audio-only, and had Myla tie it into the microphone and sound system of the motel's television set. This way, he and Jenna could speak normally in the direction of the television and their voices would be picked up easily, and all three in the room could hear and see audio or video coming from whoever answered.

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror.