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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7f62086 | bikini with a short terrycloth cover-up over it. | David Baldacci | ||
| 686a18a | Computer security was only as good as the programmer. The one who had fire walled this database has been good ---but not great. - Robert Puller | David Baldacci | ||
| 14c5465 | People who lack confidence rarely win anything . - John Puller | David Baldacci | ||
| 8f40c01 | Experience without cynicism was a sure sign your brain had dry-rotted and you hadn't bothered to notice. | David Baldacci | ||
| 42ce9d3 | Just because I work there doesn't mean I have to drink all the Kool-Aid. - Veronica Knox | David Baldacci | ||
| 5380b1b | One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving | Amy Carmichael | ||
| eefff41 | CHAPTER 33 PULLER WAS FOLLOWING LANDRY over to her place. She was ahead of him in a dark blue, white-topped Toyota FJ four-by-four Cruiser. It looked rugged and durable and ready to roll on asphalt or sand, which was probably why she had purchased it. | David Baldacci | ||
| 1523779 | Keeping out the mirror, water, and the towel, he put the other things away in the box and replaced it on the shelf. Another box held articles of a more technical nature. He pulled them all out and set them up neatly on the desk like a surgeon lining up his instruments before commencing an operation. He covered his shoulders and front with the towel and then sketched out what he wanted to do on a piece of paper. He applied spirit gum to his .. | David Baldacci | ||
| 16051b8 | Something always leads to something else. - John Puller | David Baldacci | ||
| 7f39916 | 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. - John Puller | David Baldacci | ||
| da4d4ba | far less than one block in Brooklyn. | David Baldacci | ||
| 40038cc | he would have been under the tutelage of a two-star. | David Baldacci | ||
| ae30d29 | But I bet they don't know what I saw." Puller sat down in a chair next to her bed. "So why don't you tell me what that was?" Knox glanced at the glass door to her room and saw a police officer, a man in a suit, and a burly MP standing guard there. "They're not taking any chances with you," he said, following her gaze. "Cops, FBI, and the military." She turned back to Puller and slowly but clearly told him what she had seen. The van, the kid.. | David Baldacci | ||
| c8cbb16 | Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller | David Baldacci | ||
| 2e24bb7 | noted the military guards posted out front to secure the crime | David Baldacci | ||
| 89019c6 | the poppy crop is the only thing keeping the economy going. And if we don't buy it terrorists will and use the enormous profits from dealing the drugs to attack us. Lesser of two evils; sometimes it's the only choice we have." "It's still wrong," Michelle persisted. "And what Valerie did was criminal." "Valerie was a rogue clear and simple. As crazy as it sounds I believe she was going to kill you both after the torture was done, and she pr.. | David Baldacci | ||
| a98fab8 | Important man, they say. Lot of important men in this world. But they die just like the rest of us. God's way of making life fair. | David Baldacci | ||
| 58bab15 | There's a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth | David Baldacci | ||
| 3b56f7f | As had been the case with Gray, most snipers aimed for the brain as the gold standard of all possible killing shots. Sure, you pack the right ordnance and a torso hit would also likely be fatal, but the head shot was like a faithful dog in a professional killer's world because it just never let you down. | David Baldacci | ||
| e2e04c4 | People who attempted to end their lives, no matter how amateurishly they might do so at first, often got better at it, with the result that on the third, fourth or sixth try, they ended up on a slab with a coroner poking around their remains. | David Baldacci | ||
| d5477a4 | someone like you could be so, how do you say, fortunate," said Bok." | David Baldacci | ||
| 81343a2 | that were very familiar. He saw his father. | David Baldacci | ||
| dd1a0d1 | she hadn't accounted for. | David Baldacci | ||
| e42c0eb | He had learned that this dated back to the days of the jousters. Most folks were right-handed, and back then a man wanted to keep his sword or jousting pole closest to his enemy. | David Baldacci | ||
| a894b23 | I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn't care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to know that he had a friend in me. | David Baldacci | ||
| 52f408f | got the chance. | David Baldacci | ||
| 7bd2af6 | ranking near the bottom of all fifty states in many important categories. Yet while it was the poorest of the states, its citizens gave more per capita to charities than their wealthier sister states. And they also were the most religious of all Americans. Indeed, Mississippi's constitution prohibited anyone who denied the existence of a supreme being from holding public office. Although this article was technically rendered unenforceable b.. | David Baldacci | ||
| 9e608d0 | A child's permanent personality is substantially formed by age six. | David Baldacci | ||
| ded24e1 | That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live. | David Baldacci | ||
| f73f2e4 | This message was repeated down the line until it was ringing in every guard's ears. Shots fired and nobody knew from where or by whom. And since none of the guards had guns, that meant one of the prisoners must. Maybe more than one. Now things, already serious, morphed | David Baldacci | ||
| ed2b121 | But for what reason? Council, | David Baldacci | ||
| fb1e962 | murdered | David Baldacci | ||
| ac73daa | barrels into the shaft as far | David Baldacci | ||
| 7ff042d | Robie slept soundly after killing five men. | David Baldacci | ||
| 8fe471b | Cialis." She closed the door of Sean's room with" | David Baldacci | ||
| 6ee5e3c | That is one of the media's most serious responsibilities, to open up the discussion. | Amy Goodman | ||
| b0afc47 | The motorcades drifted down the street with Canadian police providing the traffic security. There were a number of Canadian Mounties on their horses; they looked resplendent in their red uniforms. But they were also brightly colored sitting ducks when it came to an actual armed confrontation. | David Baldacci | ||
| 515cd69 | rose. | David Baldacci | ||
| 568cbd8 | CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE DAN KIRKSEN OPENED THE WASHINGTON POST AND started to take a sip of his orange juice. It never reached his mouth. Gavin had managed to file a story on the Sullivan case consisting chiefly of the information that Jack Graham, newly ordained partner at Patton, | David Baldacci | ||
| 0f9a76d | Was revenge always wrong? Was righting an injustice outside the law never condonable? | David Baldacci | ||
| ecc55b0 | Because in my experience, patriotism, while a fine quality, can fuel quite a dangerous agenda if taken to the extreme. | David Baldacci | ||
| 0673b1f | WILL ROBIE CROUCHED shadowlike at a window in a deserted building, inside a country that was currently an ally of the United States. Tomorrow that could change. | David Baldacci | ||
| a10566e | pleaded | David Baldacci | ||
| 1d87c22 | never been faced with something like this. I have our people here working on it, but don't expect a fast answer. | David Baldacci |