Angel of Vengeance Quotes

“There was the briefest of intervals—brief, yet strangely limitless in its counterpoise of anger and hunger—and then they came together in a passionate embrace.”
― Douglas Preston, Angel of Vengeance

“I also understand from your colleague that the sole thing humans of the twenty-first century are united in doing—humans who otherwise are more divided than ever before, having learned nothing in the intervening century—is destroying the earth. All eight billion of you. Polluting the oceans, heating the planet, burning the rainforests, exhausting the mineral wealth. Your own scientists are now calling your age the Sixth Extinction.”
― Douglas Preston, Angel of Vengeance

“It is a country I know well—and when I learned from your associate about Germany’s conduct in the mid-twentieth century, I could scarcely comprehend it. Germany today—I mean, in 1881—is the most advanced country on earth. It produced Bach and Beethoven, Goethe and Gauss. It fathered some of the greatest advancements in medicine, science, and mathematics the world has ever seen. And yet this country, at the very apex of so-called civilization, made this man, Hitler—and through him, perpetrated the most profound evil in all recorded history.”
― Douglas Preston, Angel of Vengeance

“Democracy is misrule by the stupid, greedy, and corrupt.”
― Douglas Preston, Angel of Vengeance

“She was looking for a certain toxin Leng had been fascinated with, found in the death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides. The toxins of that infamous species of mushroom were thermostable: they could be cooked yet remain deadly. In addition, the mushroom had a pleasant taste resembling beef broth, allowing food to be heavily laced with it yet take on no bitter or unusual flavor. But what primarily attracted Leng was the fact that the mushroom’s deadly effects took days to appear—much too late to purge the stomach with an emetic. By the time you felt sick enough to realize something was seriously wrong, you were already a dead person. You could ingest a fatal dose and remain unaware of it for as long as two weeks—until your liver began inexorably to fail. For this reason, the death cap had been used as a poison for thousands of years, playing a role in the demise of, among others, the Roman emperor Claudius, Pope Clement VII, and the Austrian emperor Charles VI. Once the poison finally manifested, it made itself felt in a most unpleasant manner indeed. An antidote was not developed until some time into the twenty-first century. Prior to that, nothing could save the victim except immediate liver transplantation.”
― Douglas Preston, Angel of Vengeance

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― Douglas Preston, Angel of Vengeance