Quotes from Dan Brown

In fact that evil could spring from an innocent child in a loving family remained one of the paradoxes of the human soul.

Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it. Just as parents could love a newborn instantly without diminishing their love for each other, so now could Ambra feel affection for two different men. Love truly is not a finite emotion, she realized. It can be generated spontaneously out of nothing at all.

You're supposed to report the news, she grumbled. Not spread vicious rumors in the form of questions. Martín had always believed in the importance of responsible journalism as a cornerstone of freedom and democracy, and so she was routinely disappointed by journalists who incited controversy by broadcasting ideas that were patently absurd—all the while avoiding legal repercussions by simply turning every ludicrous statement into a leading question.

Slechts één soort besmetting verbreidt zich sneller dan een virus, en dat is angst.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

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bodies. Langdon gazed out at the expanse, lost in his thoughts of all that had transpired in the last few days. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Tienes enemigos? Bien. ¡Eso significa que has defendido algo!".

Los protones tienen electrones.

The cries of hopelessness against the howling wind of the Pyrenees and the soft sobs of forgotten men.

Fortunately for you, we British judge man's civility not by his compassion for his friends, but by his compassion for his enemies

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand. There are those who create... and those who tear down.

Quis custodier ipsos custodes?

Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage . . . an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

Righteousness exists in many forms. And more death will come before tonight is over.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

It was all about power,' Teabing continued. 'Christ as Messiah was critical to the functioning of Church and state. Many scholars claim that the early Church literally stole Jesus from His original followers, hijacking His human message, shrouding it in an impenetrable cloak of divinity, and using it to expand their own power. I've written several books on the topic.

Langdon recordó que el problema legal de Galileo había comenzado cuando afirmó que el movimiento planetario era elíptico.

Greenburger

Despite Langdon's assurances that the keystone had nothing to do with her past, Sophie still sensed something deeply personal entwined within this mystery, as if this cryptex, forged by her grandfather's own hands, were trying to speak to her and offer some kind of resolution to the emptiness that had haunted her all these years.

I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right!

As the droplets fell harder across his back and shoulders, he could feel his body disappearing bit by bit into the mist. I am a ghost.

La panspermia es una teoría según la cual la vida comenzó en la Tierra gracias a la llegada de semillas de otro planeta.

While Christian tradition favored literal images of its gods and saints, Islam focused on calligraphy and geometric patterns to represent the beauty of God's universe. Islamic tradition held that only God could create life, and therefore man has no place creating images of life—not gods, not people, not even animals.