Quotes from James Rollins

Rolling across the floor, she reached Vigor. The monsignor crouched near the top of the firepit tunnel. She handed him her gun. "Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?

For in this world, one life was enough for any man.

You're vaccinated against rabies, right?" he asked.

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shoot anybody that comes into view." "what about you?" "no, don't shoot me.

EPIGRAPH And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

A secret sold does not require a buyer's belief. It's a value unto itself.

Two historical figures play prominent roles in this book: a pair of priests who lived centuries apart but who were tied together by fate. During the seventeenth century, Father Athanasius Kircher was known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Jesuit Order.

Leopold did not have to touch it to know to whom it belonged. It was as familiar as his own palm. It was his rosary, lost when he fell from the train. He closed his eyes. Look how far I have fallen, my Lord . . . He remembered Bernard so bowed by sorrow, so stricken by grief. Over me . . . a traitor.

continued working on their joint project in the States, while she did

Henry Morton Stanley's rescue of Dr. David Livingstone

thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that to thirty-seven. Today the average is seventy-eight. So, in the past hundred years, we more than doubled life expectancy. That

Who Are the Children of Lehi?" by D. Jeffrey Meldrum and Trent D. Stephens.

An old Churchill slogan popped into Gray's head. If you're going through hell, keep going.

The meteor mentioned in this book that caused the massive Wilkes Crater in Antarctica is believed to have triggered the Permian mass extinction, which came within a hairsbreadth of ending all life.

in the face of inhumanity, a good man reacts--but a great one acts.

She sped into traffic, earning an irritated beep from an angry driver. What was his problem? A full handspan stretched between her car and the Fiat behind her. Plenty of room…

She handed him her gun. "Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?" "Hunting." Kat had already extinguished their flashlights. She unhooked her night-vision goggles and pulled them over her eyes. "There might be more." She freed a long steel blade from her belt.

Mithraism predated Christianity yet bore uncanny similarities. Mithra's birthday was celebrated on December 25. The god's worship involved baptism and the consumption of a sacred meal of bread and wine. Mithra also had twelve disciples, held Sunday sacred, and described a heaven and a hell. Upon his death, Mithra was also buried in a tomb, only to rise again in three days.

Hij zwaaide de hamer omhoog en - 'MEESTER JAKE!' - geschrokken gaf hij zijn duim een harde klap, precies op de knokkel

trickle of superstitious dread

modern plants. Early in the earth's history, cyanobacteria also generated the planet's first oxygen atmosphere, making the world livable. And since then, they had adapted to millions of ecological niches.

ICHTHYS, was an acronym for Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, or Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior.

Though free to think and act, we are all held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable.