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“he had long ago lost his ability to perceive the passage of time. A minute, an hour, a year—it all felt the same to him.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

“until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.” “Not the Son of God?” “Right,” Teabing said. “Jesus’ establishment as ‘the Son of God’ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Fache will do what no one else dares.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“This is the short drop,” the man said. “You’ll notice that, unlike the standard drop or the long drop, your neck is not broken. Which may seem like a blessing now, but in the end you will wish it had been a longer drop and a shorter wait. But that’s the good news and bad news of the short drop. You live longer, but . . . you live longer. Most people think they’d always want to live longer, but twenty minutes at the end of a rope is a long time to die. A long time to regret things that cannot be changed and that no longer matter.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop