Still Life With Crows Quotes

“I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers.” “How’s that?” “Because truth is the safest lie.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows

“Where are you from, Mr. Pendergast? Can't quite place the accent.”
“New Orleans.”
“What a coincidence! I went there for Mardi Gras once."
“How nice for you. I myself have never attended.”
Ludwig paused, the smile frozen on his face, wondering how to steer the conversation onto a more pertinent topic.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows

“quotation from Einstein: ‘The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.’ I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows

“I find nothing more tiresome in life than explanations.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life with Crows

“She picked up the book she was reading, Beyond the Ice Limit, found her dog-eared place at the beginning of chapter six, and began to read. The sea horizon lay against the sky, blue against perfect blue, and it seemed to beckon the ship southward, ever southward. She closed the book, put it down again. Not bad, but it lacked the punch of the original.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows

“Chauncy made a huge effort to control himself. “I had lunch at Maisie’s Diner.”
“And?”
“And what? It was the most revolting lunch it has been my misfortune to consume.”
“And after?”
“Diarrhea, of course.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows

“And then, off to one side, he saw a dark, hulking figure. It was the merest glimpse, just a shadow flitting across his goggles; but it was enough. He spun, dropped to one knee, and fired—long practice at the range paying off—and the figure dropped, tumbling to the ground with a crash.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life with Crows

“Unless, perhaps, it is a quotation from Einstein: ‘The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.’ I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life with Crows

“just the two of them, him and Old Grand-Dad.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life with Crows

“I’m afraid so,” said Pendergast. “The body, it appears, has been buttered and sugared.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows

“If nobody was going to save her, she was going to save herself.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows

“Discharge, Shinjuku Thief, and Fleshcrawl before finally selecting Lust-mord. The dislocated, eldritch sounds of “Heresy, Part I”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life with Crows

“It is a capital mistake to develop a premature hypothesis in the absence of hard data.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life with Crows

“when you really parsed what the man had said, he in fact had said nothing.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life with Crows

“Intuition, Pendergast knew, was the end result of the most sophisticated kind of reasoning.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life with Crows

“Time is a storm in which we are all lost,”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life with Crows

“And what was he like? Did he have three heads?” “If he did, two must have been successfully removed in infancy.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows

“News of the murder had her all in a tizzy.”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows

“imprecation”
― Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows