The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)

by Dan Brown

Symbologists often remarked that France—a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short—could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.

art is man’s attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator’s hand,

Echoes of the tragedy still resonated in modern culture; to this day, Friday the thirteenth was considered unlucky.

It was man, not God, who created the concept of ‘original sin,’ whereby Eve tasted of the apple and caused the downfall of the human race. Woman, once the sacred giver of life, was now the enemy.”

Jesus was the original feminist.

‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’ ” He smiled. “By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”

“men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.