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Map Of Bones Quotes

Map Of Bones by James Rollins

"The relics cannot be taken back to Rome. We must reach the German border."
"Slowly, too slowly, the wagon dragged free of the mud with the sucking sound of an open chest wound."
"Listen. It’s Godsmack’s new single. It’s not even released in the States yet. How cool is that?"
"All he could picture was Mandy’s last smile. Her soft touch."
"But Gray Pierce was too valuable to be cast aside forever."
"Gray knew the figure’s next move… and already too late."
"It’s not only the top head that sells well on the black market. There’s a huge demand for ancient art of the erotic nature. It outsells more conservative pieces almost fourfold."
"To be a man, you first have to act like one."
"What was once unfashionable becomes fashionable again."
"To achieve the goal of all madmen: Armageddon."
"Acting the part was halfway to becoming that part."
"The shadowy Dragon Court has been linked to the European Council of Princes, the Knights Templar, and the Rosicrucians."
"What fire didn’t destroy, water and smoke would ruin."
"To catch a criminal required first knowing them. Ascertaining motive often proved more informative than physical evidence."
"Despite their long history, not much. Back in the eighth century, Emperor Charlemagne conquered ancient Europe in the name of the Holy Church, smashing pagan nature-cult religions and replacing their beliefs with Catholicism."
"Maybe it’s best we leave that thread to our Vatican contacts."
"It’s this lack of chemical reactivity that makes the metal lose its metallic appearance and disaggregate into a powder."
"Energy passed into a superconductor would continue to flow through the material with no loss of power."
"And the streets of New Jerusalem will be paved with gold so pure as to be transparent glass."
"Despite his exhaustion, he did not expect to get much sleep."
"As long as they don’t know we’re alive, they’ll be less likely to be looking over their shoulders."
"Someone knew we were alone in the cathedral."
"Possibly. But I can’t say for sure where it might have originated."
"Like trying to catch a soap bubble in your palm."
"I should never have tried to go against a Verona woman."
"All you can do now is wait for them to contact you."
"A horse runs best with only the lightest touch of the reins."
"Outgunned, it was all she could do. For herself…and for the others."
"I'm really going to owe the Catholic Church a month's salary for carpentry repair."
"The fewer people who knew of our discovery, the better."
"It's all symbolic of the first Eucharistic meal," Vigor said. "Fish, bread, and wine. It also represents the miracle of the fishes, when Christ multiplied a single basket of fish and bread to feed the multitude of followers who had come to hear his sermon."
"The true answer is here," Gray finished. "If the Dragon Court solved it, so can we."
"We've got to solve this," he said. He turned and pointed to the fresco. "Moses is striking a rock. Altars are usually made of stone."
"This is why the apostle Simon Bar-Jona took the name Peter, eventually Saint Peter. From Christ's words, 'You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church.'"
"That's where the Dragon Court will be heading next. We should contact Cardinal Spera immediately."
"I think the Dragon Court already knew the bones were not bones," Gray said. "They’ve had their nose to this trail for centuries."
"Maybe the fish is staring toward these particular kings because they are buried. In a graveyard. Under the earth, where a fish would drown."
"So the Dragon Court went after the bones," Rachel said.
"The amalgam is an indecipherable chemical key, impossible to duplicate. Within its unique chemistry must be the power to unlock the location of the tomb of the fourth Magi."
"Suppressing a groan, he wiggled out of his pack and grabbed one item from an inner pocket, palming it."
"And no one in attendance at the memorial service died."
"The mission must not fail. Not after so long."
"Everything has been arranged in Alexandria. The endgame nears."
"If I don’t drown, I’ll end up catching some flesh-melting disease."
"I’d rather be chasing wild geese, as we Americans say, than doing nothing."
"Despite the urgency, Gray stared at the statue, amazed."
"Fitting that these masters of riddles should be guarding this mystery."
"The only advantage we have over all the treasure hunters of the past centuries is what was discovered under Saint Peter’s tomb."
"What has one voice, and is four-footed, two-footed, and three-footed?"
"Keep in radio contact. Any problems, you raise the alarm and haul ass over to us."
"The longer I’m down here, the more I’m convinced we’re doing this wrong."
"This whole searching quadrant by quadrant. It just doesn’t feel right."
"Yes, I am going to betray you," Seichan had said plainly as she pulled on her shirt. "But only after this is over. You will attempt the same. We both know this. Mutual distrust. Is there a better form of honesty?"
"I was once like you. Only sixteen when I first came to this castle from Austria, escaping as the war ended."
"My father took me to Italy, to Castel Gondolfo, the home of the pope’s summer palace. I gave birth to your mother there. A shame. I was beaten for it. A male child had been hoped for."
"But bastard or not, it was a good crossing, mixing a noble Austrian line of Hapsburgs with a Swiss Bernese line."
"It sounded like it was coming from another world."
"Monsters of muscle, leather, and teeth stalked out, snarling, frothing, driven mad by the thunder and blood."
"Light is symbolic of knowledge. Enlightenment."
"And now the electricity is releasing the stored power in the glass."
"The immensity of age contained within this space made her life feel small and insignificant."
"As she descended deeper, her burden grew lighter. Its hold loosened around her heart."
"It’s always been about light. A quest for the primordial light of the Bible, the light that formed the universe and everything in it."
"Superconductors not only have the capability of storing energy for an infinite period of time, they can also store light."
"The symbolism was plain. The Star of Bethlehem. The light that had guided the Magi."
"He felt violated, splayed open, every thought, action, desire bared."
"He faced himself, his life, his possibility, his ruin, his salvation… He saw the truth—and it burned."
"The mazes in all the cathedrals. They represented symbolic journeys. From this world to the next. To spiritual enlightenment in the center."
"Maybe it wasn’t love. Not yet. Just a promise."
"The ancients sought the source of primordial light, the spark of all existence. Maybe they found a doorway into or a way to ascend up to it."
"To let us know what awaits us. To give us something to seek."
"Maybe that’s what life’s journey was all about. The quest. To seek the truth."
"It’s got to be the mechanical hand. Comes with a two-stroke vibration mode. What woman wouldn’t want to date me?"
"Mother Nature seemed determined to turn Orleans Parish back into swamplands."