Quotes from Dan Brown

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

Yo no he escrito un libro sobre verdades y mentiras. Simplemente, un libro que ha despertado la curiosidad de la gente en el pasado

the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

So you mean that even having the power to interfere and prevent your child feel pain, you would choose to show their love letting him learn his own lessons? - Sure, pain is part of growing up. It's how we learn. The camerlegno shook his head. - Exactly. p.89

Compassion is a universal language. - Robert Langdon

Science can heal, or science can kill. It depends on the soul of the man using the science.

Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.

It sounds as if you are trapped in a cycle of thinking about yourself and how you don't belong in the world.

La riqueza es algo común y corriente, la sabiduría en cambio rara.

Politics is a desperate business.

That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Fighting communicable disease was often like fighting a forest fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war.

When science offers an answer, that answer is universal. Humans do not go to war over it; they rally around it.

This guy eluded the French police... in loafers? -Chief Anderson

Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing —- that a great enlightenment is coming.

Would you rather live in a world without technology…or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation, and antibiotics…or without zealots waging war over fictional tales and imaginary spirits?

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

Absolution is the only escape. You must find a way to forgive the people who did this, or your rage will consume you whole.

Dante Alighieri. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague's wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty—quaranta in Italian—served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.

as she spoke, she watched the expressions on the faces go from incredulous shock, to hopeful belief, and finally to awestruck acceptance

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Sweet science will banish the dark religions ... so that enlightened religions can flourish.

tonight … for it's the beginning of forever.