Deep Storm Quotes
"It’s a tragedy, but it’s over now. There’s no need to worry about others accessing the site. No foreign government can approach the dig interface; it’s too heavily irradiated."
"But I remind myself that whoever entombed those devices also has the power to protect them—to make sure they are never tampered with."
"Because if people caught wind of what we’ve found, it would instantly become front-page news on every paper in the world."
"You’re right to be skeptical. But this is no deception. It’s the last thing from it."
"The reality is more incredible than you can imagine."
"Trust me—once you’re fully briefed, it will all make sense."
"What’s buried down there, beneath the Moho? Oh, yes. Thousands of devices. Active devices."
"We’re a small city, two miles below the surface of the ocean, far from prying eyes."
"It’s not Russian or Chinese. And I’m afraid there are too many things that don’t add up for it to be naturally occurring."
"There’s no earthly phenomenon to explain that."
"You see, certain…artifacts have been retrieved."
"Remember what I told you, Peter, about the threshold."
"It’s what drives every computer on every desktop in the world. It’s how neurons fire in our brains."
"Who’s to say, for example, that fire wasn’t a gift from beyond the stars?"
"It’s almost as if they’ve been waiting, watching, all these years, to offer us something."
"Maybe our analysts will finish decrypting those markers tomorrow, or the next day, and all I’ve said will become moot."
"The reason I placed it inside that Plexiglas cube is because it’s a little hard to deal with otherwise—it always finds the precise center of a room in which to hover."
"They’re remarkable, Peter—even more remarkable than they look."
"Our job when we started was clear-cut: dig as quickly as possible, within safety parameters, down toward the source of the signal."
"Once we had technology advanced enough to pick up a signal from beneath the Moho—once we could actually dig down to the beacon—we would be considered ready for the next leap forward."
"But with the discovery of this eyewitness account, and given Spartan’s increasingly aggressive behavior…well, you’re the only option I have left."
"It was as if the fabric of the land would tear itself apart."
"It seemed the devil had falsely deceived the people of Staafhörn, luring them to a most lamentable end under angelic guise."
"For many days thereafter I wandered Denmark, telling my story to all that would listen and heed my warning."
"Hold on! Tight as you can! I'll try to climb out of this!"
"We must be opposite the spoke by now. This can't go on much longer. It can't."
"You have to. This is the only chance we have."
"It took a certain kind of man, Kevin Lindengood decided, to work an oil rig. A certain screwed-up kind of man."
"Everybody seemed to bring his own portion of unfinished business, personality tic, or lovingly tended neurosis."
"Because what drove a person to work inside a metal box suspended over a freezing sea by steel toothpicks?"
"It was the last day of the month, and that meant everything had to come to a complete stop while electromagnetic pigs were sent down to clean the drilling pipes."
"The offshore installation manager was validation of his certain-kind-of-man theory."
"The only thing missing was a swagger stick and a—"
"Then, very slowly, he straightened, face going pale in the blue wash of the cold-cathode display."