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But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.
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Decker shook his head and stood. "It goes beyond mere eccentricity. She also has a run-down farmhouse and a crappy car that she drives to work and on her rounds as the proverbial Good Samaritan." "What does that tell you?" "If you were a spy and had"
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Why the hell don't kids call their parents anymore? Why don't they answer their phones? Why all this crazy texting shit?
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And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who possessed damn near all of it.
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David Baldacci |
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Maybe I shot the sheriff and the deputy.
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David Baldacci |
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By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing,
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For me, the Canyon isn't just a tourist destination. It's a living, breathing place. It has a dozen plants that live nowhere else.
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But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.
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David Baldacci |
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And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.
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doyle
hound-of-baskervilles
shaw
sherlock-holmes
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Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.' 'What?' said Mars, looking too. 'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.' 'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.
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readers
tolerance
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The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.
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The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that's all you need for a major life change: a dream.
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At the end of a lifetime's worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us? We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn't it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?
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CIA
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see evidence of
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Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.
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David Baldacci |
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cut there. He instantly knew what Patti had done.
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David Baldacci |
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I've seen enough in this world to know that two people who can make each other that miserable must love each other a lot.
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David Baldacci |
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Businesses don't give a crap about creating jobs. They care about making money. With robots, you'll just need some tech guys to maintain and repair them.
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David Baldacci |
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He got into the car thinking that people were interesting. Sometimes they just couldn't distinguish the truth from bullshit. Sometimes they didn't want to. It was often easier just to believe a lie.
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David Baldacci |
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People who believe themselves to be True patriots tend to be zealots. Zealots, in my opinion are one short step from being lunatics.
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David Baldacci |
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She'd heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests.
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David Baldacci |
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When I hugged you for the burgers. Susan Reynolds isn't the only one good at sleight of hand." Puller"
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David Baldacci |
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Wait a minute; I thought the Battles didn't pay the ransom." "No, they did but they got it back--well, at least most of it."
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David Baldacci |
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ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.
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David Baldacci |
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how I really feel when he was here
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David Baldacci |
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mythology," said Robie."
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David Baldacci |
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eighty pounds; hardly any of it was fat. Most people looking only
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David Baldacci |
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hundred and eighty pounds; hardly any of it was fat. Most people
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David Baldacci |
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To Aunt Peggy, an angel on earth if ever there was one
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David Baldacci |
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DB. What finally got
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David Baldacci |
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Small observations can lead to large breakthroughs.
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David Baldacci |
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surprised about it. The case presents no unsettled question of law that requires our intervention. Need I say more?" He threw up his hands. "In your opinion?" A tinge of red eased across Ramsey's face. "In the published opinions of this Court over the last fifty years. All I ask is that you accord the Court's precedents the respect they deserve." "You'll find no one who holds this institution in higher regard than I do." "Very happy to hear..
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His features were Middle Eastern, his eyes haunted but also defiant. They were all defiant, Gray had found. When he looked at someone like al-Omari, Gray couldn't help but think of a Dostoyevsky creation, the displaced outsider, brooding, plotting and methodically stroking a weapon of anarchy. It was the face of a fanatic, of one possessed by a deranged evil. It was the same type of person who'd taken away forever the two people Gray had lo..
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David Baldacci |
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She was around fifty and her eye sockets were starting to recede into her face like a pond starting to dry up.
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David Baldacci |
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A Sig P228. But it had
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David Baldacci |
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How did you get on to her?
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rain. And now?" "Have you spoken to your son?" asked Reel. She nodded. "Derrick was the one who told me about Valerie. He's very worried. I don't think I've ever seen him like this." "Was that all he told you?" asked Robie, his gaze fixed on her. She looked up at him. "Isn't that enough?" "I suppose it is," agreed Robie, who shot a quick glance at Reel. "But while we're discussing communications, I have to admit that I didn't tell you every..
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But don't sit here and think that you're cured, because that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. People who want to get better, they work at it. They don't lie to themselves and everyone else. They don't sit on their ass and sink deeper into a pathetic existence while denying anything's wrong at all. They have balls not bullshit. And I'm pretty much fed up with yours.
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David Baldacci |
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said Reel, shooting Robie a quick glance that he did not notice. "Maybe that was their plan. But Luke could never do that while he was with the skinheads. They wouldn't have allowed it. And I doubt Luke would have wanted Holly anywhere near those people. They are bad news." Robie said, "Maybe that's why they came for him. Because he told them he was leaving the group so he could start a new life with Holly." Reel said, "That actually makes ..
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David Baldacci |
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We came home to hatred and disgust and...maybe even worse, indifference.
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David Baldacci |
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You take life as it comes at you, and it's rarely perfect.
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David Baldacci |
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He would beat the shit out of me for the slightest thing. But it wasn't the fist or the belt that hurt the most." "It was the words," said Reel."
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David Baldacci |