Christopher Cartwright > Quotes

“Please note that I know the hazards. I want to do it. Because I want to try. As men have tried. Women must too. And when they fail, their failure must be of a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart’s letter to her husband on the eve of her last flight.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Phoenix Sanction

“He laughed as a song came into his ears. “All you need is love.” Playing The Beatles always made him feel more hopeful about the world. Good art did that, that’s why people loved it. It made you feel connected to something greater than yourself, and remember your own purpose in this mad play called the cosmos.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Labyrinth Key

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― Christopher Cartwright, The Mahogany Ship

“Magdalena stood thirty feet high and one hundred eighty-five feet in length, only slightly shorter in length than a transatlantic Zeppelin. Her lines were sleeker and her propellers proportionately larger, making her the fastest airship ever built. He was proud of her. She was the greatest achievement of his fifty-two years of life. Unlike the Zeppelin, which was designed and built for the masses, the Magdalena was built for the few.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Last Airship

“about what you found today.” Olsen stopped pouring the warm water into a mug. “What I found today?” Felix carefully studied the man’s eyes. They failed to meet his own, and answered his question immediately. Yes, Albert Olsen”
― Christopher Cartwright, Atlantis Stolen

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― Christopher Cartwright, The Nostradamus Equation

“Something about the concept amused his morbid curiosity. It brought home the simple concept that whatever we achieve on earth, we all end in nothing.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Heisenberg Legacy

“it’s only worth worrying about those things you have the ability to change, and to forget about those over which you have no control.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Last Airship

“his progression any further down the”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Nostradamus Equation

“The CIA was like a fungus. Once you let it in, it grew everywhere.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Heisenberg Legacy

“The Diomede Islands were primarily composed of Cretaceous-Age granite or quartz monzonite, meaning the islands were formed through glacial movements and not volcanic activity.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Aleutian Portal

“water, propelling the sampan toward the gate.”
― Christopher Cartwright, Dragon's Breath

“where did”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Midas Vault

“To seek was one of the seven primal emotions that were concentrated in the ancient subcortical regions of all mammalian brains – the other six, being:  rage, fear, lust, care, grief, and play.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Tomb of El Dorado

“Sam headed aft, along the internal passageways, before taking a set of internal stairs down into the dive locker. Here Veyron was working his way through a series of tests for the new Triton 36,000/3 three-person submarine. It was an updated version of the old Sea Witch II that was destroyed when the Maria Helena was torpedoed”
― Christopher Cartwright, Habitat Zero

“The size and behavior of waves are determined by a range of factors. These include, the direction of the swell compared with the speed of the tide, prevailing ocean currents, the depth of the water, the shape of the seafloor, the presence of reefs and sandbanks, even the temperature of the ocean.”
― Christopher Cartwright, Rogue Wave

“There was supposed to be a World War III. It was going to be disastrous for humanity. Billions of people were going to die. Less than a tenth of the human population would survive.” “Why did we want that?” “Because we’ve become the plague of our planet. We are the locusts. The planet can’t sustain our ravenous growth forever. This was supposed to be the correction. And now, we must try to avert the real disaster.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Nostradamus Equation

“Experimenting on the blending of human DNA with a multitude of other animal species to develop the perfect fighting chimera… Gee…” Tom said, sarcastically, “it’s hard to imagine why an ethics committee might have a problem with that.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Hunt for Excalibur

“Sam replied.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Sam Reilly Collection

“They lost something vitally important to the war effort?”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Relic Hunter

“He released the clutch and the Humvee crept forward.”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Sam Reilly Collection Volume 3

“stolen their camels and were riding south. If their pursuers didn’t take the bait, they would have”
― Christopher Cartwright, The Nostradamus Equation