Glenn Cooper > Quotes

“Lo tuyo no tiene remedio", pensó. Un concepto interesante. Irreparable. Irredimible. Sin posibilidad de rehabilitación o mejora significativa.”
― Glenn Cooper, Library of the Dead

“without Excalibur the Grail cannot be discovered”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction”
― Glenn Cooper, The Devil Will Come

“Luther proclaimed, Paul had written in Romans that it was God who would save us: “For in the Gospel, a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written the righteous shall live by faith.” Surely, Luther argued, men did not need the Pope and priests and all the trappings and finery of the Church for salvation. All they required was a personal relationship with God.”
― Glenn Cooper, Book of Souls

“In the year 1112, Cîteaux Abbey was still all wood and no stone. It had been established fifteen years earlier but the abbot, Stephen Harding, a flinty Englishman, had not received new novices for some time. He was overjoyed by this influx of humanity and he welcomed Bernard and his entourage with open arms. That first cold night in the lay dormitory, Bernard blissfully lay awake, the crowded room resonating with the snores of exhausted men. In the days and weeks to come, the harder the travails the greater his pleasure and in the future he would tell all novices at his gate: ‘If you desire to live in this house, leave your body behind; only spirits can enter here.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Tenth Chamber

“To a blare of trumpets Peter the Apostle was dragged onto the track. He’d been arrested along with the priest Cornelius and several followers at a Christian house near the Pincian Hill. When the soldiers arrived Peter had smiled at them as if he were welcoming old friends. Pater was hauled onto a high wooden platform at the center of the racetrack for all to see and Tigellinus loudly proclaimed him to be the ringleader of the plot to destroy Rome.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Devil Will Come

“How many universes are we talking about?” “A big number,” Neti said. “One estimate is that there could be a googol of them,” Claire suggested. “That’s a one followed by a hundred zeros: trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of them. Other models suggest it’s maybe bigger, maybe infinite.” “Okay, I get the concept,”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“Veni Creator Spiritus. Veni, creator Spiritusmentes tuorum visita,imple superna gratia,quae tu creasti pectora.Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,And in our hearts take up Thy rest;Come with Thy grace and heavenly aid,To fill the hearts which Thou hast made.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Devil Will Come

“contact and he seemed far more comfortable with her anyway. ‘I’m surprised you were interested in my little paper,’ Gunther said, showing them into his starkly modern office that overlooked the Institute’s reflecting pool. ‘Was no one else interested?’ Elisabetta asked, speaking for the first time. He poured coffee from a cafetière. ‘You know, I thought it would generate some wider expressions of interest and comment but that was not the case. Just a few notes from colleagues, a joke or two. Actually, the greatest interest came from the police.’ Elisabetta put her cup down. ‘Why the police? Was his death suspicious?’ ‘Not at all. The cause of death was clearly a coronary thrombosis. The man was in his eighties, found unresponsive on the street and taken to the casualty ward where he was pronounced dead. All very routine until someone removed his trousers. The case took a further unusual turn two days after his autopsy when someone broke into the hospital morgue and removed his body. The”
― Glenn Cooper, The Devil Will Come

“This is it—an enormous spike of thermal and scintillation activity. At the lowest possible calibration, it’s still almost off the charts. It’s at 9.4 GeV. It’s the neutralino, Arthur. It’s dark matter.” He put his hand on her shoulder. “And here, these green dots in the corner of the plot,” she pointed. “These are neutrinos at 2.2 eV—a lot of them. It all fits.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“God’s mysterious number. The Book of Genesis alone was ripe with sevens: the seven heavens, the seven thrones, the seven seals, the seven churches. The walls of Jericho crumbled on the seventh day of the siege. In Revelations, seven spirits of God were sent forth into the earth. There were exactly seven generations from David to the birth of Christ, the Lord.”
― Glenn Cooper, Library of the Dead

“dark matter is probably all around us. The problem is that it plays by different physical rules than ordinary matter. All the subatomic elementary particles which make up ordinary matter—you know, the leptons and quarks, et cetera—they’re all bound together by the strong nuclear force. The candidate particles for dark matter are called WIMPs.” “Physicists come up with the best names.” She smiled. “Well, it’s a field dominated by men. It stands for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. Like ordinary matter these WIMPs have mass, they’re acted on by the exceedingly faint force of gravity, but because they don’t obey strong nuclear forces they almost never interact or collide with ordinary matter.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“inscription, which reads in part, HINC CINERES TANTI HOMINIS RESURRECTIONEM MORTUORUM EXPECTANT RIP. Arthur heard Claire reading the dedication aloud then translating, “From the ashes of so great a man look for the resurrection of the dead. Rest in peace.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“As to the differences, textual differences occur in all of the five acts but the preponderance of additions lie in Act III. In the B text, Act III is far longer and becomes a rather concentrated anti-Catholic, anti-Papist tract – which in and of itself isn’t terribly surprising in the Protestant hotbed that England had become under Elizabeth. Faustus and Mephistopheles travel to Rome and observe the Pope, his cardinals, bishops and friars acting like scandalously greedy buffoons. It must have been a real crowd-pleaser in its day.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Devil Will Come

“The central space of the crypt is dominated by the Church of the Assumption with a beautiful altarpiece sculpted by Josep Llimona. Flanking the altar are four chapels: one—housing Gaudí’s tomb—dedicated to Our Lady of Carmen; one dedicated to Jesus Christ; one to Our Lady of Montserrat; and one to the Holy Christ. The latter chapel houses Josep Maria Bocabella's tomb. Three other chapels ring the perimeter, bringing the total to seven.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“As dazzling as the vault of the apse was, Arthur and Claire looked downward because the central area of the apse incorporated the ceiling of the crypt. And here Gaudi’s genius shined as profoundly as anywhere in the basilica. The vault of the crypt was surrounded by glassed and arched windows that penetrated the floor of the apse rising within the presbytery to the height of a man. The design allowed worshipers to gaze heavenward to the light-filled vault, the place where God resided, but also to gaze down into the crypt, the place of death and human repose.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“Gulping, he lifted it until the box was fully open. The room became as bright as a sunlit day. The Grail was shining like a beacon. It had changed color from jet black to snow white. He felt Claire beside him and heard her say, “My God.” He was scared to touch it out of fear it was hot but when he realized that there was no intense heat he put his hand closer until his finger made contact. It was the same temperature as before. Behind him he heard Neti say, “It’s happening,” and he assumed she was talking to them, but he was mistaken.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“If the first-century dating was ever going to be in doubt, this settled it. We’ve found several so far.’ Elisabetta took the bag. It contained a large silver coin. The bust on the obverse showed a flat-nosed man with curly hair who was wearing a laurel wreath. The inscription read ‘NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR’. She flipped the bag over. The reverse was an elaborate arch flanked by the letters S and C – Senatus Consulto, the Senatorial mint mark. ‘The lost arch of Nero,’ she said. ‘AD 54.’ ‘Precisely,’ Trapani said, visibly impressed by the nun’s acumen. ‘But this isn’t a typical columbarium, is it?’ she said, glancing at the tarps. ‘Hardly.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Devil Will Come

“they passed under the vault of the crossing, which was higher than the nave, rising sixty meters. The vault above the apse was the highest at seventy-five meters. It had been Gaudí’s intent for a visitor entering through the main entrance to see the vaults of the nave, crossing and apse rising in graduated grandeur.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“cielo de un rosa ocaso, Will había sujetado el barco a su amarre con tantos cabos que parecía un insecto gordo preso”
― Glenn Cooper, La hora de la verdad

“Lord I am your servant. Praise to you glory to you. Vast are you, Lord, and vast should be your praise. My faith in you is your gift to me, which you have breathed into me by the humanity your Son assumed.”
― Glenn Cooper, Book of Souls

“weeping room. It was small but large enough for the women described in the bible to have prayed and lamented over the body of Jesus. Through a low portal and down a single stone stair were four diminutive burial chambers including the longest in the northeast corner, the one said to be where Jesus was laid out.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“Mister Marlowe,’ the Master began. ‘Here is the final thesis subject of your baccalaureate. We wish you to consider the following and commence your disputation without delay: According to the law of God, good and evil are directly opposed to one another. You may begin.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Devil Will Come

“drain stopper,”
― Glenn Cooper, The Physician of Nineveh

“this modern world of ours has diverted our attention from lofty goals. We’re barraged with the notion that we can achieve instant gratification for many of our needs. Hungry? There’s fast food. Need information about something? Google it. Lonely? Online dating. Sad? There’re drugs for that. But there’s no instant gratification for a spiritual quest, is there? That takes work and commitment. Maybe by the end of one’s days you’ve achieved a measure of spiritual fulfillment, maybe not. I see the Grail quest as a real embodiment of that spiritual quest. It’s an ancient pursuit but I don’t see why it shouldn’t also be a modern and relevant one.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“The Palace of Whitehall was a city unto itself. It surpassed the Vatican and Versailles in sheer size and pomp and it was no small task to navigate among 1,500 rooms. To find one’s destination required prior knowledge or the good graces of a friendly gentleman or lady to take you by the hand and lead you through the labyrinth of offices and private residences.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Devil Will Come

“imbued with these notions: he must care for his lands and his tenants, defend women at all cost, be just and merciful in his dealings, counter wickedness by guarding ordinary people against oppression, protect his faith and his church, and above all else support his lord in battle with courage and unfailing devotion.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“These instruments here are amazingly sensitive. They look for WIMPs by the scintillation—the ultrafaint light—that’s produced and the microscopic amount of heat that’s made in a collision with ordinary particles.” “These WIMPs,” he said. “Is there one candidate for dark matter or several?”
― Glenn Cooper, The Resurrection Maker

“The six Nicholas Bacon Scholars came next. Marlowe sat at the adjacent table with the remaining scholars, including his Parker lot. The Pensioners, all rich lads, filled out the tables in the rest of the hall. Unlike the Scholars, they paid their own commons and other expenses. Their interest in the academic life was generally marginal; their lot in life was to drink, play tennis and accumulate just enough education to return to their country seats as Justices of the Peace. Rounding out the student mix were the Sizars, poor lads who were clever enough to attend university but not meritorious enough to receive scholarships. They had to wait on their fellow students for their tuition, bed and board.”
― Glenn Cooper, The Devil Will Come

“marido.”
― Glenn Cooper, La hora de la verdad