Plum Island Quotes

“A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“The air was so thick with testosterone that the wallpaper was getting soggy.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Trying to improve on anthrax is like trying to improve on gunpowder. Anthrax is easy to propagate, easy to handle, it diffuses nicely into the air, kills slowly enough for the infected population to spread it around, and cripples as many victims as it kills, causing a collapse of the enemy’s health care system.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Sometimes people rationalize their behavior. How about the Americans who gave atomic bomb secrets to the Russians? They were people who said they did it out of conviction—so one side wouldn’t have all the power.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“The way to a woman’s heart is through her funny bone. Women like men who make them laugh. I think.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Anyway, I’m getting really intolerant of liars, fools, blowhards, and power freaks.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

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― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“The skins have been sprayed. You should squeeze the pulp into your mouth. Here.” He handed me half the bunch. We walked along like old buds, squeezing grape pulp into our mouths—but not each other’s mouths. We weren’t that close yet.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“typical male postcoital mood, thinking I should be sleeping or leaving.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“life.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“I’m a good Methodist and a bitch. But only once a month.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“nodded, “A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“I nodded. It was interesting, I thought, how little some things had changed in three hundred years. Here’s a situation where the government hires this guy to do its dirty work, he does part of the job but by mistake he creates a political problem for the government, so they try to get not only their money back, but also his fair share, then they frame him, and finally hang him. But somewhere along the line, most of the bucks slipped through their hands.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“There was a big banner hung at the entrance to the stacks which read: “Find Buried Treasure—Read Books.” Excellent advice.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Are you a wine connoisseur?” “No. Are you?” “Yes. I can tell the difference between a Merlot and a Budweiser. Blindfolded.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“couldn’t see anything sinister about the place, no paintings of burning churches on the walls, no black candles, no needlepoint pentagrams or black cats, and the kitchen had no bubbling witch’s cauldron.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“When they send someone to interrupt a private conversation, it means that they weren’t able to eavesdrop.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“I always thought that voluntary arms compliance inspections were sort of like a suspected murderer leading me on a guided tour of his house. No, Detective, there’s nothing in that closet of any interest. Now, let me show you my patio.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Anyway, The Plum Runner slipped through this narrow channel and into a small cove which looked artificial, as though it had been called into being, not by God Almighty, but by the Army Corps of Engineers, who liked to put the finishing touches on Creation.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Maybe my ex-wife was right about meat. I tried to picture a life of soybean cheeseburgers, chile no carne, and hot dogs made out of seaweed. I’d rather die. All of a sudden I felt love and warmth for the Department of Agriculture.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Put up a winery and you get ten thousand wine-sipping yuppie slime from the nearest urban center.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Actually, I called the town supervisor and got an okay to hire you, officially, as a consultant. A hundred bucks a day.” “Wow. Sounds like the kind of job I have to save up for.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location. Obviously these holes were in the right locations, because I was convalescing, not decomposing.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“the older you get, the more baggage you have to carry, and the less you’re able to lift it.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“the past was so strong, it obscured the present.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“the guy from the Midwest goes up to a New Yorker on the street and says, “Excuse me, sir, can you tell me how to get to the Empire State Building, or should I just go fuck myself?”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island