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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0d35c60 | john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that | human-society humanity life the-finisher | David Baldacci | |
| 890372c | Planning something never seems risky. It's in the execution where all the risk comes." "And" | David Baldacci | ||
| 03b0210 | Life had coincidences. Serendipity abounded. Wrong place, wrong time. It came as the result of seven billion people jostling each other within the span of a single planet. But there was an unwritten rule in police work: There are no coincidences. All you needed was more in-depth investigation to show that there are no coincidences. | David Baldacci | ||
| 988d3f6 | But in the end, you can't kill what you can't see coming . . . | David Baldacci | ||
| 23bc45e | discussion. Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision. And decisions have ramifications | David Baldacci | ||
| 7fae2b9 | You really think so?" said Robie. "These are guys. All guys think girls talk to each other. They'll come back for the kid for sure." "You're just tryin' to scare me," said Emma smugly. Reel shrugged. "We don't need to. They killed one sister. They've probably got Sara now. They'll kill her too, like they tried to do last night." "What?" said Emma, looking startled. "Robie, I'm telling you, let's just ride" | David Baldacci | ||
| 7c52ba6 | lay there, listening for the squeaks of the final | David Baldacci | ||
| 8023f68 | More guns! No guns! Second Amendment! Guns kill! No, people kill! | David Baldacci | ||
| a4136e5 | You know what happened to her predecessors?" "Of course. It's sort of like the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers. Bad things happen to them." "Defense Against the Dark Arts?" "You know, in ." | harry-potter-reference | David Baldacci | |
| 8a3cb7e | It is asking a lot. But when you're attempting to do something truly extraordinary, isn't it fair to ask a lot in return? | David Baldacci | ||
| eae3ffc | Facing fear is better than running from it," he said. "What if it's fear you can't beat?" "Then it might be better to be dead," he answered." | David Baldacci | ||
| bb7c462 | He rose, placed another small log on the fire, sat back down in his armchair, and opened his book. "What are you reading?" Reggie asked. "On a wild night like this? Agatha Christie, of course. I still feel compelled to see if Hercule Poirot's 'little gray cells' will do their job one more time. It seems to often inspire my own brain, however inferior it might be to the diminutive Belgian's." | baldacci poirot tribute | David Baldacci | |
| 57aa8e6 | Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing. | David Baldacci | ||
| 945ff3a | It had been so long since we were a family that I had almost forgotten the joy that came with having one. All the small and large moments, many that I had taken for granted while they were occuring, no doubt bolstered by the certainty that there would be many more. Yet such endearing and memorable engagements in life are promised to no one. They come and go and one has to be aware that there is no assurance they will ever come again. It mad.. | David Baldacci | ||
| 000dea4 | He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn't matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent's totally unique hell. | David Baldacci | ||
| 90a1066 | there?" "Doubtful. While" | David Baldacci | ||
| 06105bf | It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light. | past trauma traumatic | David Baldacci | |
| bb18b5b | the business of politics, which essentially meant screwing others before they got around to screwing you. | David Baldacci | ||
| 93ea3bf | Everybody's got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to. | David Baldacci | ||
| 51d05ff | What happened to you as a child, particularly something bad, changed you, absolutely and completely. It was like part of your brain became closed off and refused to mature any further. As an adult you were powerless to fight against it. It was simply who you were until the day you died. There was no "therapy" that could cure it. That wall was built and nothing could tear it down." | David Baldacci | ||
| b0ab397 | The place smelled of sweat and burned coffee and the passage of time, which held its own moldy stink. | David Baldacci | ||
| 28ddc31 | Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory | escape mystery-suspense | David Baldacci | |
| 2fdea91 | Kids make everything better. And harder. | David Baldacci | ||
| bff05e4 | Robie took a deep, cleansing breath. He had never played well with others. For the last dozen years he had worked in almost total isolation. He preferred it that way. He was better alone than with a team. That's just how he was built. | David Baldacci | ||
| daa6de0 | But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that. | death family | David Baldacci | |
| 2833480 | 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" | David Baldacci | ||
| 913b48e | Why the hell don't kids call their parents anymore? Why don't they answer their phones? Why all this crazy texting shit? | David Baldacci | ||
| bd6cacb | 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. | David Baldacci | ||
| 7347e40 | Maybe I shot the sheriff and the deputy. | David Baldacci | ||
| 11f9468 | By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing, | David Baldacci | ||
| 9f0198b | 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. | David Baldacci | ||
| dec8092 | But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people. | David Baldacci | ||
| 2837eb7 | And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese. | david-baldacci doyle hound-of-baskervilles shaw sherlock-holmes | David Baldacci | |
| 5733ba1 | 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. | readers tolerance | David Baldacci | |
| ad8c0ab | 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. | David Baldacci | ||
| ae922ee | The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that's all you need for a major life change: a dream. | David Baldacci | ||
| 1667b8c | 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? | David Baldacci | ||
| d5b519f | CIA | David Baldacci | ||
| a8fb8ee | see evidence of | David Baldacci | ||
| 023b89b | Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions. | David Baldacci | ||
| 7b1f3bf | cut there. He instantly knew what Patti had done. | David Baldacci | ||
| 7dea6fd | 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. | David Baldacci | ||
| 35589e8 | 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. | David Baldacci | ||
| 2bc8e6f | 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. | David Baldacci |