Quotes from Douglas Preston

Humboldt Kill dive.

I wish you'd told me I was going to be piloting a Yellow Submarine." "To what end? It would only have worried you. These DSVs are idiotproof.

There are four biosafety levels, BSL-1 to BSL-4.)

Gideon and Garza had hoped to find passage on a Nile River cruiser to Aswan, but at this late date everything was booked. So they'd done the next best thing and reserved a stateroom with two double beds on a small cruise ship making a circuit of the Red Sea.

Manuel is a superb engineer with no imagination whatsoever, which makes him doubly dangerous - talent married to convention.

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.

The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

It is all about how human beings construct a narrative out of random events, baseless assumptions, and simple-minded prejudices.

They had camped on a sandbar and built a fire. Bruce cut the meat into strips, but as he laid it on hot stones to cook, he "heard a loud screaming growl." He grabbed his M16 and turned just in time to see an animal charging them; he had the weapon on full-auto and sprayed it with "at least twenty rounds"; it dropped five feet from him: a huge, seven-foot jaguar.

Must be the clean Long Island air, he thought wryly.

Carpe diem. ¿Quién sabe lo que nos traerá el mañana?

the only person worse than a liar is a hypocrite.

The fact is, you lied about hearing something because you didn't want the management to know you were drunk on duty. Isn't that right?

As they drove out of Fort Myers, taking SR 867 south, Coldmoon observed with curiosity the neighborhoods they were passing through. They were a mixture typical to Florida: some wealthy, some shabby, many in between—but all high density. It was amazing how many damn people there were in this state. In South Dakota there were stretches of highway where you could drive a hundred miles without seeing a house.

The rich will always be with us.' There is no answer, except to make sure we wealthy are not allowed to use our money as a tool of oppression and subversion of democracy.

smash the window?

Flatbush accent.

secondary accounts are viewed by historians as examples of 'generation loss' and the unreliability of oral tradition. The farther you are from the primary source, the harder it gets to be certain the details are one hundred percent accurate.

To most people, Metcalf had discovered, silence was even more unbearable than pointed questioning.

had been released from the King of Prussia Subacute Care Center in September of last year.

were not shouting anything, just silently

He was dismissed, ignored, humored as if he was crazy. An experience like that can break a man.

son of Stefano Mele and Barbara Locci, who was sleeping in the backseat of the car and who witnessed his mother's murder at age six.

Animal behaviorists have noted again and again that predatory species often kill when they have no desire to eat. They are killing because the instinct to kill is very strong.