Lincoln Child > Quotes

“The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.”
― Lincoln Child, The Third Gate

“Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.”
― Lincoln Child, The Forgotten Room

“Don’t you love that phrase,
a person of interest? So rich with dark suggestion, so full of murky hints—without actually saying anything
at all.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

“And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I’m about to speak—though I speak them with some regret, since I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain’t no Nessie.” This”
― Lincoln Child, The Forgotten Room

“to be a witness to evil is to be human.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, City of Endless Night

“Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.”
― Lincoln Child

“what’s a tomb without a curse?”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, The Pharaoh Key

“If you are going to walk on thin ice, he said, you might as well dance.”
― Lincoln Child, Terminal Freeze

“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

“—every single decent lead has gone to hell. I feel like I’m rolling a ball of shit up an endless mountain.”
“My dear Vincent, Sisyphus would be proud.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, City of Endless Night: Library Edition

“Abruptly, another section of ice front calved off the glacier about half a mile south, collapsing in house-sized blue chunks at its base and throwing up a cloud of ice shards. Chen started violently, and Faraday covered his ears against the roar. Marshall grimaced as he felt the mountain shudder beneath his feet.”
― Lincoln Child, Terminal Freeze

“exotrophia: one eye looked ahead normally, while the other pointed outward.”
― Lincoln Child, Deep Storm

“Pendergast," Ridder said. His voice was low and very, very cold. Despite herself, Corrie shivered when she saw the look on his face.
Pendergast stopped. "Yes?"
Ridder's eyes glittered like mica. "You've disturbed our lunch and agitated our guest. Isn't there something you ought to say to him before you leave?"
"I don't believe so." Pendergast seemed to consider a moment. "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 & Lincoln Child, Still Life With Crows

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
― Lincoln Child, Lethal Velocity

“The Devil’s interval”, Logan murmured.
She looked at him. “I’m sorry?”
“The flatted fifth. G flat, for example, over C. It was a particular interval between two notes banned from church music in the Renaissance for it’s supposedly evil influence.”
― Lincoln Child, The Forgotten Room

“Just ahead, half hidden among the trees, was a two-story Mission-style cabin, charmingly rusticated and yet of obviously modern construction, with a peeled-log facade and granite fieldstone foundation.”
― Lincoln Child, Full Wolf Moon

“We have, what, 66,000-odd guests here today? And not one of them retains even an infant’s sense of self-preservation. They checked their fight-or-flight instincts at the door. That’s what they’re paying for. They see a fire, hear an explosion, feel their roller coaster begin to shear off its track—what are they gonna do? Laugh all the harder. Because they think it’s part of the act. That makes every last one of them a sitting duck.”
― Lincoln Child, Lethal Velocity (Previously published as Utopia): A Novel

“The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.”
― Douglas Preston Lincoln Child

“enigmalogist”
― Lincoln Child, Full Wolf Moon

“And yet it was not authentic, of course, because no real boardwalk of 1910 had been this perfect. It was like a fondly remembered nostalgic confection, a past sanitized of its imperfections, buttressed by an arsenal of hidden technology.”
― Lincoln Child, Lethal Velocity (Previously published as Utopia): A Novel

“Military-grade laser,” Conti said. “Very powerful, yet more precise than a jeweler’s file.”
― Lincoln Child, Terminal Freeze

“I could never lose you as a best friend because if I ever did I would have lost my best friend, my soul mate, my smile, my laugh, my everything.”
― Licoln Child

“You say the ancient Egyptians believed the heart was critical for surviving in the next world.” Romero nodded. “Once in the netherworld, the pharaoh’s heart would have been inspected, tested by Anubis, in a ceremony known as the Weighing of the Heart. At least, that was the belief of later Egyptians.”
― Lincoln Child, The Third Gate

“Did he find the heifer?" Pendergast asked.
The question threw Winifred off. Nobody asked about the heifer.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

“exotrophic.”
― Lincoln Child, Deep Storm

“EFG 112-A. PATENT 4,125,662. WAREHAM ELECTRIC COMPANY, BOSTON. TOLERANCES 1–20 MG, .1–15 MT. “ ‘mG,’ ” Logan read aloud. “Do you suppose that’s milligauss?” “I think so. And I think mT stands for microtesla.”
― Lincoln Child, The Forgotten Room

“son favored abstract expressionism.”
― Lincoln Child, The Forgotten Room

“But you've displayed three gifts that are indispensable to a first class researcher: a sense of what to look for, a sense of where to look for it, and the zeal to see your theories through...Academic zeal is just as important as zeal in the field, Miss Green.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Relic

“coruscating”
― Lincoln Child, Deep Storm

“You know, Ethan, there are cultures on earth who believe that—under the right circumstances—a person can be separated from their inner spirit.” “Inner spirit?” Rush repeated. “I mean the intangible life force that links us from this world to the next. The Byzantines, the Incans, certain Native American tribes, Enlightenment-era Rosicrucians, all had variant belief structures regarding such a thing—there were, and are, many others.”
― Lincoln Child, The Third Gate