We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

I am a mass of contradictions.

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H. Was she an H? Was H "hers"? It could just as easily be "his". Or "Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All