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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“If I were a scientist looking at this stuff, I might wonder about God—not about His existence, but His intent.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“The last big deadly human influenza epidemic in the world was in 1918. There were about twenty million dead worldwide, including five hundred thousand in the United States. Based on our present population, the equivalent number of dead now would be approximately one and a half million people. Could you imagine such a thing today? And the 1918 virus wasn’t particularly virulent, and of course, travel was much slower then and less frequent. Today, the highways and skyways can spread an infectious virus around the world in days.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“I wanted to disable the vehicle, but the cab doors were locked, and the engine hood was latched from the inside. Damn. I crawled under the high chassis and drew my knife. I don’t know much about auto mechanics, and Jack the Ripper didn’t know much about anatomy.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Because the genetic makeup of a virus has to be able to… well, mesh with a cell to infect it. Human cells do not mesh with FMD virus.” Beth said, “But there’s some evidence that Mad Cow Disease has infected humans.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“The wonderful thing about America is that there are more antiques in circulation than were originally made.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“The convenient thing about biological warfare has always been easy deniability, and its untraceable origins.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“Daughters of the American Revolution don’t have group sex because they don’t want to have to write all those thank-you notes.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“he looked like one of those whistle and clipboard types: short blond hair, icy blue eyes, Mr. Can-Do, ex-jock, fit and trim, ready to organize a sporting event or assign people to boxcars, whatever needed doing.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“I counted ten men, all dressed in some sort of blue uniform, and either they were the Department of Agriculture band, sent out to greet me, or they were the night security guards”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you’re finished.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“wounds are big. I’m guessing”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“did a”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

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