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“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” Pg. 1

“Things have a life of their own. It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.” -Melquíades pg. 1-2

“This is the greatest invention of our time.” -Jose Arcadio Buendia pg. 18

"Do you think there are more animals?" -Alan Grant
"I can't say. Can you?" -Marty Gutierrez
"No. I can't say " -Grant
"But you suspect?" -Guitierrez
"Possibly there are. Yes." -Grant pg. 399

"Grant sat back in his seat. He thought of the dinosaurs standing on the beach, and he wondered where they would migrate if they could, and he realized he would never know, and he felt sad and relieved in the same moment." Pg. 397

"...until it seemed the entire island was glowing, a diminishing bright spot in the darkening night." Pg. 397

"...one by one, the animals moved back into the shade of the palm trees at the edge of the mangrove swamp, and there they stood, lined up in their peculiar fashion, watching the ocean. They stared fixed to the south." Pg. 393

"They want to migrate." -Alan Grant pg. 395

"Crippled animals." -John Hammond thought pg. 391

"Lying on his back on the hillside, he began to feel strangely relaxed, detached from himself. But he realized that nothing was wrong. No error had been made. Malcolm was quite incorrect in his analysis. Hammond lay very still as a child in its crib, and he felt wonderfully peaceful." Pg. 392

"It's a colony." -Alan Grant pg. 386

"But, Alan-- do you notice anything funny about them?" -Ellie Sattler
"Like what?" -Grant
"How they arrange themselves spatially. They're falling into some kind of a pattern or arrangement in the room." -Sattler pg. 388

"The characteristic of vision. That great sweeping act of imagination which evoked a marvelous park, where children pressed against the fences, wondering at the extraordinary creatures, come alive from their storybooks. Real vision. The ability to see the future. The ability to marshal resources to make that future vision a reality." Pg. 380

"Everything... looks different... on the other side." -Ian Malcolm pg. 382

"The animals are mingling with each other. Populations reaching equilibrium-- a true Jurassic equilibrium." -Alan Grant pg. 369

"You've shirked responsibility all along, from the very beginning." -Grant pg. 370

"And you think that's what happened to dinosaurs?" -Donald Gennaro
"Until we have a better explanation, yes. I think that's what happened. Now, shall we find this nest?" -Grant pg. 373

"The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us." -Ian Malcolm pg. 365

"My point is that life on earth can take care of itself." -Malcolm pg. 366

"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet-- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." -Malcolm pg. 367

"That happened before. It means auxiliary power is low. You have to turn on main power." -Alan Grant pg. 359

"The hard part is just beginning." -Alan Grant pg. 363

"But you decide you won't be at the mercy of nature, and from that moment on you're in deep trouble, because you cant do it. Yet you have made systems that require you do it. And you can't do it-- and you never have-- and you never will. Don't confuse things... Your powers are lush less than your dreams of reason would have you believe." -Ian Malcolm pg. 349

“For some reason he was getting a consistent error message whenever he tried to turn on a grid. It was saying the power was incompatible with the command he was giving. But what did that mean? Why was power incompatible?” Pg. 347

“As the door began to close slowly behind them, the raptors hissed and charged.” Pg. 348

“Timmy… something’s there.” -Lex Murphy pg. 328

“Were they behaving as they really had in the past? It was an open question, ultimately unanswerable.” Pg. 334

“Isn’t this always the way? Some little mistake screws it all up.” -Ellie Sattler thought pg. 336

“Ah, we haven’t got a whole time. Better get the power grid on.” -Robert Muldoon on a radio
“Hurry, Timmy! Get the power on!” -Lex pg. 343

"But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline... They are all trying to do the same thing: to do something big, and do it fast." -Ian Malcolm pg. 306

"And now chaos theory proves that unpredictability is built into our daily lives. It is as mundane as the rainstorm we cannot predict." -Ian Malcolm pg. 312

"We know a lot less about reptiles. And nobody knows anything about dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are new animals." -Robert Muldoon pg. 290

"A young juvenile, and a male. There was no question what he was seeing. This velociraptor had been breed in the wild." Pg. 296

"And then, with a roar, the tyrannosaur's head burst through the waterfall toward them." Pg. 296

"Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop ask if they should do something... There is always some proof the scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a rape of natural world. Always." -Ian Malcolm pg. 284

"Young hadrosaur. The whole herd stampeded, and the young one got separated, and the T-Rex brought it down." -Robert Muldoon pg. 272

"Then all the birds can fly out." -Lex Murphy
"Not if they're big birds." -Alan Grant pg. 275-6

"-- another classic example of an amphibian visual cortex. Studies of frogs had shown that amphibians only saw moving things, like insects. If something didn't move, they literally didn't see it. The same thing seemed to be true of dinosaurs." Pg. 261

"It was just a dawn.
The air was warm and humid, the sky soft pink and purple. A white mist clung low to the ground. Some distance away, they saw the mother triceratop and the baby moving way..." Pg. 253

"The system is not intended to ever shut down. So, if it does shut down, it assumes that there is a problem somewhere. It requires you to start up everything manually." -Dr. Henry Wu pg. 257

"Living systems are not like mechanical systems. Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they're not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse." -John Arnold pg. 246

"I finally found the command to restore the original code. The command called 'fini.obj' resets the linked parameters, namely the fence and the power." -John Arnold pg. 238

"How else should I be doing, with a compound fracture of the leg that is likely septic and beginning to smell, ah, pungent? But I always say, if you can't keep a sense of humor..." -Ian Malcolm pg. 241

"You going into the woods?"
"Yes. I think we can navigate by the numbers on the motion sensors." -Alan Grant pg. 232

"...he couldn't remember exactly where they are, but he remembered they were scattered all around the park. There might be buildings somewhere nearby." Pg. 234

"There it is. It's not an object. It's a command." -Dr. Henry Wu pg. 230

"...what better person to get them safely through Jurassic Park than a dinosaur expert?" Pg. 231

"Inexperienced people imagined horrific proofs of an animal attacks--... But the truth was, there was usually nothing at all..." Pg. 222

"It could only have been after the attack. The kid must have been in this car, after the attack." -Robert Muldoon pg. 224

“John’s frequently got a problem. You know how engineers are. They want everything to go by the book.” -Dr. Gerald Harding pg. 217

“Checking the code.” -John Arnold
“By inspection? They’ll take forever.” -Henry Wu
“Tell me. Tell me.” -Arnold pg. 219

"It's playing with him." -Alan Grant thought pg. 216

"Where had everybody gone?" -Tim Murphy pg. 207

"The result was clear: all breeding dinosaurs incorporated rana, or frog, DNA." Pg. 209

"The children of the world love dinosaurs, and the children are going to delight-- just delight-- in this place." -John Hammond pg. 198

"Dinosaurs have excellent visual activity, but they have a basic amphibian visual system: it's attuned to movement. They don't see unmoving things at all." -Dr. Gerald Harding pg. 201

"You have a problem, Dennis." -Dennis Nedry pg. 194

"The pain grew worse, and as he was lifted to his feet he knew the dinosaur had his head in its jaws, and the horror of that realization was followed by a final wish, that it would all be ended soon." Pg. 196

"If the rain lets up, we'll get a glimpse of some of the animals at night." -Dr. Gerald Harding pg. 191

"... Nedry's done something to the system. I can't figure out what, but if I have to go into the code itself, they'll take hours. We need Nedry. We've got to find the son of a bitch right away." -John Arnold pg. 192