Old Bones Quotes

“Fortune makes promises to many, keeps them to none. Live for each day, live for the hours, since nothing is forever yours.”
― Douglas Preston, Old Bones

“Fortuna spondet multa multis, praestat nemini, vive in dies et horas, nam proprium est nihil.”
― Douglas Preston, Old Bones

“I can’t stand these sanctimonious religious types, dictating to scientists what they can and can’t do.”
― Douglas Preston, Old Bones

“Voltaire once said, ‘To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
― Douglas Preston, Old Bones

“secondary accounts are viewed by historians as examples of ‘generation loss’ and the unreliability of oral tradition. The farther you are from the primary source, the harder it gets to be certain the details are one hundred percent accurate.”
― Douglas Preston, Old Bones

“If Albuquerque was the ugly, dusty ass end of nowhere, then Farmington was the inflamed boil on that ass. If”
― Douglas Preston, Old Bones