Quotes from Douglas Preston

EXCLUSIVE: LOST CITY DISCOVERED IN THE HONDURAN RAIN FOREST In search for legendary "City of the Monkey God," explorers find the untouched ruins of a vanished culture.

Lieutenant D'Agosta

This inferno of contagion destroyed thousands of societies and millions of people, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, from California to New England, from the Amazon rainforest to the tundra of Hudson Bay. It is what destroyed T1, the City of the Jaguar, and the ancient people of Mosquitia.

problem for the whole city.

Discharge, Shinjuku Thief, and Fleshcrawl before finally selecting Lust-mord. The dislocated, eldritch sounds of "Heresy, Part I

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

This genetic resistance, by the way, should not be confused with acquired immunity. Acquired immunity is when a body gets rid of a pathogen and afterward maintains a state of high alert for that same microbe. It's why people don't normally get the same illness twice. Genetic resistance is something deeper and more mysterious. It is not acquired through exposure—you are born with it.

Crazy damn job, looking for dead bodies.

Queens, by the accent.

I have my books. I don't live in the actual world. I am imperturbable.

She's more a daiquiri and margarita drinker.""We all have our flaws," said Pendergast.

No crazier than killing Vietcong or packing explosives under some poor bastard's hull

This was a big divergence from the way human children learn language, and that itself was interesting.

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.

Wampusirpi has an organic cacao cooperative, which produced blocks of pure chocolate, shipped downriver to market. It is said by chocolate aficionados to be some of the finest single-source chocolate in the world.

complex farming societies were able to thrive in even the toughest rainforest areas. Human ingenuity is boundless.

She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry.

The Lost City of the Monkey God is a throwback to the golden age of adventure archaeology, the thrilling true story of a group of explorers penetrating one of the toughest jungles on earth in search of a lost city…and finding it. Preston is a terrific writer of both non-fiction books and bestselling novels and makes you feel the dark heart of this lost Honduran wilderness." —John Sandford, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author

An old poet, Robert Herrick, put it like this:    " Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again.

You just put your boot so far up his ass, he'll have to eat his dinner with a shoehorn." "I can always count on you for a suitable bon mot.

but he was never concerned by contradictions.)

Ei s'immerge ne la notte, Ei s'aderge in vèr' le stelle. He plunges into the night, He reaches for the stars.

some kind of head injury that took him a decade to recover from.

Did you know that research on gorillas has shown that they communicate using gestures? Now listen to this. An ASL-like language may very well have preceded spoken language in human development. A kind of language with gestures and vocalizations. Gradually the vocalizations took over from the gestures, because it's so much more convenient to speak than gesture.