Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.

To fly or not to fly, that's the question.