Verses for the Dead Quotes

“you shall learn, if you haven’t already, that in life insubordination is not only necessary but even, at times, exhilarating.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Verses for the Dead

“Sherlock Holmes used the process of induction—not deduction.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“Given the two six-packs of Pabst Blue Ribbon you drank, I’d say that by midshift your blood alcohol concentration must have been around 0.2 percent, leaving you in no condition to notice any disturbance, much less investigate it.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“Powder Valley State Hospital outside of Allentown, nine months before. Powder Valley Hospital, she quickly discovered, specialized in long-term rehabilitation of neurologic trauma. And like King of Prussia, it wasn’t far from Scranton.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“had been released from the King of Prussia Subacute Care Center in September of last year.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“persiflage”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“the only person worse than a liar is a hypocrite.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“All right.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“many extremely well-organized people have illegible handwriting”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“state of Maine”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“Ayuh.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“Encuentre al hombre que hizo esto,” she said,”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“NO PUEDO DORMIR,”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“some kind of head injury that took him a decade to recover from.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“He was dismissed, ignored, humored as if he was crazy. An experience like that can break a man.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“they develop slowly, beneath the surface—like a subcutaneous abscess.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“game theory, was called the “ultimatum game.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“The fact is, you lied about hearing something because you didn’t want the management to know you were drunk on duty. Isn’t that right?”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead

“There are many essential police skills they don’t teach you at the Academy,” said Pendergast. “Ass covering, as it is so charmingly termed, being the most important.”
― Douglas Preston, Verses for the Dead