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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0379acb | stroke he imagined plunging | David Baldacci | ||
| 55f3a8b | If it doesn't make sense the way I'm thinking it through, it means I'm thinking it through wrong. But then what way is right? He | David Baldacci | ||
| b012717 | I know. I admit that. You're working with NSC now. And the FBI." "So?" "So how would you like to be part of a joint effort with NIC?" "I already have enough alphabet letters, thanks." "You" | David Baldacci | ||
| 4cf0768 | Oh yeah," said Annabelle. "If you want to drive yourself nuts spend a couple days zooming around country roads with Mr. Speedy while he drones on and on about some dead writer no one but him has ever heard of." "Sounds delightful," replied Chapman. "Sort of like gnawing off one's arm for sport." "Caleb," | David Baldacci | ||
| fd15941 | You ask me that question two, three years ago I'd say yeah, damn straight you will. Yes sir." He looked out at the crush of people. "You ask me today, I say I don't know. I don't care what court you're in. Supreme Court, traffic court. Things are changing, man. Not just the courts either. Everything. Everybody. Whole goddamn world's changing and I just don't know anymore." They" | David Baldacci | ||
| ae24584 | I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy. | David Baldacci | ||
| 841d36a | en Washington no habia realmente vencedores y vencidos, solo supervivientes. | David Baldacci | ||
| 7cabf57 | Shots around the knee region, however, reduced the toughest men to screaming babies. Rogers | David Baldacci | ||
| 74c8eef | We cry for mercy to the next amusement,The next amusement mortgages our fields. | Amusement | ||
| 6897318 | Lo unico que puede ser peor que no ver el bosque por culpa de los arboles es no ver los arboles por culpa del bosque. ANONIMO | David Baldacci | ||
| 862c1d4 | We fight. We don't betray. | David Baldacci | ||
| 5f77779 | Who knows what beats deeply within the hearts of people? | David Baldacci | ||
| 6ad952a | Although America loved its tough guys, they weren't ready to vote for leaders who exhibited no compassion for the downtrodden and miserable, for on any given day they might constitute a majority. | David Baldacci | ||
| e9a4306 | Reel. | David Baldacci | ||
| 73b7c92 | preferred entering through the front. | David Baldacci | ||
| bd925a5 | It's funny that DiCarlo's security | David Baldacci | ||
| 5ca0fcd | There were five, not counting the guide. The man and | David Baldacci | ||
| 40947b4 | He earned a national reputation managing large political campaigns, turning them into media-driven extravaganzas with emphasis on sound bites and perception over any kind of substance, and his win rate was astonishingly high. That probably said more for the gullibility of the modern voter than the high standards of the modern candidate, Michelle thought. | David Baldacci | ||
| 78c65f7 | tersely. Then the line | David Baldacci | ||
| f906b52 | answers to. Maybe the locals already had answers. He would take | David Baldacci | ||
| 4a32fb5 | Some things never change," said Abby wearily. "Boys never grow up, they just get bigger with more hair and people start calling them men." | David Baldacci | ||
| c4dd4ce | Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. | David Baldacci | ||
| 32e441a | The place smelled of mildew and rot. What | David Baldacci | ||
| c956a6f | People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They | David Baldacci | ||
| 9a08528 | maelstrom | David Baldacci | ||
| 5dd4f0e | Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's. "And" | David Baldacci | ||
| ed36cbf | way | David Baldacci | ||
| 5ad9672 | few governmental institutions are more misunderstood and feared out of ignorance than the Federal Reserve Board. | David Baldacci | ||
| fe92bc0 | When the Fed raises or lowers interest rates, for instance, then that affects the entire economy. Contracts or expands it. | David Baldacci | ||
| a4879fc | wives had called. Cynde and Debbie had | David Baldacci | ||
| af4d25a | phone. He | David Baldacci | ||
| ce0dcbc | You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close." Frank" | David Baldacci | ||
| ab52c5b | out the | David Baldacci | ||
| 58338ea | There's a phrase that critics of economic forecasting like to use: Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it. This entire city is filled with number crunchers who look at the exact same data and interpret it in widely disparate ways on everything from the federal budget deficit to the Social Security surplus." "Meaning that data can be manipulated." "Of course it can, depending on who's paying the meter a.. | David Baldacci | ||
| 24c0835 | thousand yards of this place." "Who is she?" | David Baldacci | ||
| 13d90e9 | Across the room he had placed a mirror he'd found in her bathroom on a table. It was angled so that he could see her face reflected in it, while he remained hidden from her. | David Baldacci | ||
| 0c0f437 | As accustomed as he was to the ever-expanding muscle of technology, even Jason Archer had to shake his head occasionally over what was really out there. Iris scanners were also used to closely monitor worker productivity. Jason grimaced. Truth be known, Orwell had actually underestimated. | David Baldacci | ||
| 09f45bb | There's one key difference between the Olympics and combat, Susan. You might have overlooked it." He paused. "In the Olympics, no one is shooting back at you." | David Baldacci | ||
| ed43b48 | Why don't you come by around six? | David Baldacci | ||
| f3d4cea | When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it. | David Baldacci | ||
| 8192a6c | He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes. | David Baldacci | ||
| a0d5c08 | Every time I think I've got you figured out you throw me a curve. - Veronica Knox | David Baldacci | ||
| cc0bcb1 | And can I camping on you to cover my back? You have to ask? I wouldn't be asking if I didn't think I had to. Yes, I'll have your back. Will you have mine? I've had your back ever since you showed up, Knox. (John Puller and Veronica Knox) | David Baldacci | ||
| b33ca39 | Barely." "And" | David Baldacci |