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

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

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

“—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

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

“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

“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

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

“enigmalogist”
― Lincoln Child, Full Wolf Moon

“Police Scuba team's unofficial motto: We dive in shit and look for dead things.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Reliquary

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“exotrophic.”
― Lincoln Child, Deep Storm

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

“discoveries: a burial pit in Wales that contained the remains of what most scholars agreed was the first-century English queen Boadicea. She had been found buried in an ancient war chariot, surrounded by weapons, golden armbands, and other trinkets.”
― Lincoln Child, The Third Gate

“coruscating”
― Lincoln Child, Deep Storm

“inane”
― Lincoln Child, Lethal Velocity