Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
“Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.”
― Jurassic Park
― Jurassic Park
“And there they were, just lying there in the middle of all his papers. How long had she been in the room? Had she seen them?”
― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
“I didn’t ever take to Mary Blakiston and I’m not going to start singing her praises just because she managed to fall down a flight of stairs and break her neck.”
― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
“A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there.… And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”
― Jurassic Park
― Jurassic Park
“Don’t you worry, Dr Redwing,’ Mary had said. ‘You leave it with me for a day or two. As a matter of fact, I may have one or two ideas . . .’ That was what she had said. At the same time there had been a look on her face which wasn’t exactly sly but which was knowing, as if she had seen something and had been waiting to be consulted on this very matter. And now she was dead.”
― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
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