Brain Quotes

“Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion,’ ”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Philips reached out and adjusted the viewing controls, called the window level and window width. “My God,” he said after a minute. “You know what we’re looking at? Air! There’s no brain. It’s gone!”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“The ethical and moral issues involving human experimentation have to be solved before . . . . . . before fiction and fantasy become fact. ROBIN COOK, M.D.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“she had two phones.”
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“need a phone,” managed Philips.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Being snubbed added to Goldblatt’s fury. “Your impudence is astounding,” he growled.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“yeah,” said Helen. “The second angioroom is going to be out all day today while they install a new film loader.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Also,” droned Helen, “Dr. Clinton Clark, Chief of Gynecology called, not his secretary, the doctor himself. And he sounded very angry. He wants you to call. And Mr. Drake wants a call too.” The printout”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Sure can. Just ask the computer. That thing will do just about everything but polish your shoes.” By eight-fifteen”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Quite a setup you have down here.” Martin had never visited the computer lab before and had not imagined that it was so extensive. “It gives me a strange feeling to be in this room,” he admitted. “I went to med school here and back in sixty-one, I took”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Because it can be the key to my freedom,” said Martin holding her close. “You have become my promise for fulfillment and research has the power of giving me what I want from medicine as well as more time with you.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“sure of the diagnosis. I’m in love with you, Denise.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“these slides with the red-grease-pencil marks have areas where the neurons are either missing or in bad shape,” said the resident. “The curious thing is that there’s very little if any inflammation. I don’t have any idea what it is. I’d have to describe it as ‘multifocal, discrete neuron death,’ etiology unknown.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“The thing that surprised”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“return to the clinic that afternoon to repeat it.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“I got to be going anyway,” said Michaels. “Good”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“and her light brown eyes sparkled above her surgical mask. Philips would have loved to have touched her, but instead let his eyes linger for an extra second on hers.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“scan and polytomography. If there’s any trouble, just say it’s a special request of mine. And tell the technicians to give me a call just before they do the procedures.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“had been years since he had felt the excitement of romantic love. For a couple of weeks he hadn’t even recognized”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“The engine choked and died before the driver and the”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“excitedly that the reason he was calling was that he’d found another patient in the ER, named Lynn Anne Lucas, who had the same abnormal density pattern he’d seen on the Marino film. He told Michaels that he had not been able to follow up on Marino, but was going to get definitive films in the morning. He added that the computer had actually asked him to tell it what the abnormal density changes were. “The Goddamn thing wants to learn!”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“As soon as the typewriter ceased its rapid staccato, Philips tore off the report. He read it with Denise looking over his shoulder.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“I’ve been getting some crap from the rest of the ER staff,” Thomas said. “They think I’m interested in the case because the patient is a piece of ass.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“What about this recent urinary infection?” said Dr. Thomas. “It cleared up on the sulfa drugs. Is there anything else about that illness that you haven’t mentioned?”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“pole. Denise followed, her eyes rapidly exploring the interior which was completely tiled; walls, ceiling and floor. The tiles had once been white; now they were an indeterminate gray. The room was thirty feet long and twenty feet wide. Parked in rows on each side were old wooden carts with wheels the size of those on a bicycle. Down the center of the room was an open lane. Each cart supported a shrouded corpse.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“romantic rendezvous you promised in the coffee shop? I don’t have much time; I’ve got to get back to the CAT scanner.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“But when the image of the word fell on her retina, something strange happened in Kristin’s brain.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Blackman looked beneath. Kristin could almost feel the nurse’s gaze on her totally exposed crotch.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Kristin realized that trying to decide when it was “safe” was no longer a reasonable method of birth control.”
― Robin Cook, Brain