Golden Gate Quotes

“You call that a sound system?” asked Sydney. “It’s a cassette player. It’s from the 1900s.”
“Yeah, well, so am I,” Monty replied.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“For the second time in less than fifteen minutes, Kat’s words had silenced the room.
Monty laughed and said, “For someone who never talks, you sure know what to say.”
Kat smiled wryly and answered, “I pick my moments.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“The Bodleian’s a highly secure building.”
“That was built when the cutting edge of security was a moat and a man with a pointy stick,” Monty said with a laugh.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Pirates have seized the boat,” Brooklyn said. “I think they’re coming for the two of you.”
“Pirates?” Judy gave her a confused look. “You mean with peg legs and parrots?”
“Yes, and a crocodile with a loud clock in its stomach,” Brooklyn replied sarcastically. “This isn’t a storybook. These are actual twenty-first-century criminals at sea. And you two are the most valuable treasure on this boat.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Dead ends are only course corrections to help you find the right direction.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“To manufacture trinitrotoluene, you must first produce mononitrotoluene by nitrating toluene with a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acids. This must be renitrated to dinitrotoluene and then nitrated to trinitrotoluene by using an anhydrous mixture of nitric acid and oleum.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“I’m Tru. I can do whatever I please. It’s under the name Harrison Marcus.” He smiled. “You don’t much look like a ‘Harrison Marcus.’ ” “Says the man named ‘Mother.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“It’s totally your choice.” He tried to answer but the best he could do was “Amp-li-dope.” She shook her head. “I’m sorry. I can’t understand what you’re saying.” “Amp-li-dope!” he pleaded. “I still can’t understand, but I’m guessing it’s probably antidote,” she answered. “That would be the wise choice.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“It’s a reminder that sometimes when you’re reading a situation, the answer lies not in what you see, but in what is missing.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“What do you bomb?”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“No matter what, my lips are sealed. My secrets will never be revealed.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“gorgeous. They used it as the library in the Harry Potter movies.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“If it was easy, what fun would it be?”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“You had a full breakfast of pancakes and bacon at the hotel not thirty minutes ago, and you’re already hungry?”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Nerdy Book Club”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Most can go where fortune falls, but a spy must go where duty calls.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“I know that is what you think, but as for me, I think it stinks!”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Examples: “Why shouldn’t you take advice from pi? It’s irrational.” “Why did 4, 12, and 34 go into overtime? Because they were all even.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“I’m the twelve-year-old girl who’s running circles around you.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Berlin, Beijing, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, Mexico City,” said Brooklyn. “He was crisscrossing the world and there doesn’t seem to be any pattern to it.” “And you know how I hate it when there’s not a pattern,” joked Kat.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“This was the building, universally known as the Doughnut, where MI6 stored its most sensitive records. Magpie had come looking for one in particular.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Originally,”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Doughnut”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Option one, stop your ridiculous questions, thank these two girls for saving your daughter’s life, and go out to the members of the media who you’ve been feeding information to and announce that after a thorough investigation it is evident that MI6 made no lapses with regard to the hijacking of the Sylvia Earle.” “And option two?” “You continue your ridiculous questions, and I go out and address those same members of the media,” Judy said coolly. “And I tell them all about our family. I tell them about the late-night phone calls you make when you think I’m asleep and can’t hear who you’re doing business with. And of course, I explain to them why it is I live with my father and not with my mother.” The color drained from Bloody Mary’s face. “I don’t know how the fine people of Southgate will like what they hear, but I’m sure the press will be fully entertained by the pathetic soap opera that is our family.” The room fell into stunned silence until Alice stood up and pointed directly at Judy. “What she said!”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“She walked over to a filing cabinet to get some forms, and when she was out of earshot, Paris leaned over and whispered to Sydney, “Was that an explanation of how to make a bomb?” Sydney gave him a sly smile and answered, “Maybe.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“The library aide looked up, stunned.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“houndstooth blazer”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Fay Chie Hong – 2:30 p.m. Duncombe + Jackson Chinatown”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“A rubber glove?” He let out a booming laugh. “What are you going to do? Wash the dishes like a good girl?”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“Good afternoon,” Fletcher said to the young library aide who was working at the desk. “I am Dr. Duncan Fletcher, Fitzhugh Senior Fellow of applied mathematics, director for the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, and executive liaison between the university and the Alan Turing Institute. And you are…?”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate