Melanie Dickerson Quotes

“You have every right to be free, Miss Langdon. No one is denying you that. But freedom is only valuable if you use your freedom wisely.”

“He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he hadgladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical facultyhousing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a youngboy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.”

“Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.”

“Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.”

“Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.”

“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide we sprawled in the ooze and slime.”

“Symbols,” Langdon said, “in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.”

“The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought”

“I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.”

“Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?"Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.”