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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cac4413 | hers. He gave | David Baldacci | ||
| b0027c2 | I've found that guys who inherit like that often have a chip on their shoulder. The man brags too much about how successful he is. Somebody who'd earned it probably wouldn't feel the need. You don't see Warren Buffett telling everybody how brilliant he is at business. His actions speak for him. | David Baldacci | ||
| e8e30d2 | You can't live your life trying to make people understand something they don't want to understand. | David Baldacci | ||
| 647463c | Trying to recapture his youth. He should have known that nature bowed to no one, regardless of their monetary worth. | David Baldacci | ||
| 1975ed2 | I don't believe in ghosts or magic." "I don't either, Mary. But I do know one thing." "What's that?" "That this guy is not going to get away." -- | David Baldacci | ||
| 83e4c5c | Dan Robie was someone who could change his opinion of you. Robie well knew that. And when the opinion was altered, the man was unlikely ever to revisit it. | David Baldacci | ||
| ec7a145 | cantilevered | David Baldacci | ||
| 4aa7f03 | For Tom the vision of Agnes Joe crammed inside the cockpit of a two-seater Cessna, her hammy fingers curled around the yoke, her enormous feet on the rudder pedals, wavered right on hallucinatory. | David Baldacci | ||
| 992dc51 | There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." -- J. R. R. Tolkien" | David Baldacci | ||
| 7f4ba5b | Decker gazed over at him. "You can still marry again. Have kids, Ross." "I think raising kids is a younger man's game. I'm not far off the big five-oh." | David Baldacci | ||
| ac08d32 | Indifference. | David Baldacci | ||
| 964f47f | That's what's called a 'valley fill.' What they fill it with the coal companies call 'overburden.' That's basically everything they tore off the land: trees, soil, and rock that the coal companies sweep away to get to the seams. They have to put it somewhere. And since West Virginia has a reclamation act, meaning the coal companies have to put the land back close to how they found it, the companies take the overburden, dump it in a valley, .. | David Baldacci | ||
| b9ff1a7 | the overburden like that they've turned the geology upside down. Topsoil is on the bottom and rock that was on the bottom is now on top. Native plants and trees won't grow in it. So they introduce non-native plantings that are royally screwing up the ecosystem. | David Baldacci | ||
| 51b71aa | she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time he had left to live. | David Baldacci | ||
| 668f375 | An hour later they were being escorted down a long corridor at the Pentagon. In fact, every corridor at the Pentagon was long. It was a labyrinth beyond all labyrinths. Indeed, it was rumored that employees from the 1960s were somewhere in the bowels of the place still looking for an exit. | David Baldacci | ||
| 213f5f4 | CHUNG-CHA HAD NEVER MET a westerner who could tell the difference between a Chinese and a Japanese, much less a North Korean and a South Korean. | David Baldacci | ||
| d1808c6 | triumphant | David Baldacci | ||
| 65a166c | He drew in her scent. Her breath smelled of | David Baldacci | ||
| 16ce33e | What about the kids?" He pointed to them." | David Baldacci | ||
| d1d098a | belt. "But it didn't happen." | David Baldacci | ||
| d786ccf | There're many things to love in this country. The skinheads are not one of them. | David Baldacci | ||
| 36ba5c6 | That might not seem like much to some, but when you have nothing, anything seems like a fortune. | David Baldacci | ||
| 0a0cb99 | hyperthymesia, | David Baldacci | ||
| 7dc0927 | Decker had worked his way onto the Cleveland Browns by busting his ass on the practice field, sacrificing his body in idiotic ways that had come back to haunt him in | David Baldacci | ||
| 364d37b | King | David Baldacci | ||
| 01c333c | Come on, soldier, you put your life on the line for your country. A damn zipper shouldn't be too hard. | David Baldacci | ||
| 747b347 | I guess it comes down to greed. You don't pay folks, you make more money. That and thinking one race wasn't as good as another. | David Baldacci | ||
| 365d860 | Puller felt his hand begin to shake as he read through the thoughts of his mother from three decades before. Problems in the marriage. Problems with him. Problems with her. But . . . she was willing to work things out. | David Baldacci | ||
| e5216a6 | Rogers showed dressed in his new clothes, and slipped his smartphone into his inside jacket pocket. He drove over to the Grunt and parked in the rear. | David Baldacci | ||
| 0a71073 | What's a quick fling in the sack compared to decades of indifference? | David Baldacci | ||
| 13c5d53 | I'm gonna be sick," Burt moaned. "I'm gonna be sick!" | David Baldacci | ||
| f7dfee4 | Life is not fair any way you cut it, Michelle. You know that and I know that. We've lived that stuff too often to recognize it any other way. | David Baldacci | ||
| 0dbb8ca | Michelle stood and fixed her gaze on him. "We've been lied to, almost shot, nearly blown to hell, and pushed around by dickheads from the Army, DHS, and now the FBI. So I can tell you flat-out that whether you want to 'partner' with us or not, we're working this case. So stick that up your ass and see how it fits"--she glanced at his ID on a lanyard around his neck--"Dwayne." Sean muttered, "Holy Mother of God," and put his hand over his ey.. | David Baldacci | ||
| 81686c1 | Whatever was hurting the lady, he simply didn't have the tools to help her. Apparently, a deep friendship didn't cut it with matters of a wounded soul. | David Baldacci | ||
| acfcfcf | Bad news always travels faster than good. | David Baldacci | ||
| ea38146 | Technically, I'm right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something--I don't think anyone can really quantify it--that I don't. But that's okay. I'm happy with | David Baldacci | ||
| 80b8ac7 | what I do have, and so are my clients." He took the piece he was carrying and set it up on an empty easel but did not uncover it." | David Baldacci | ||
| c243e62 | You could have been a great scientist or something. Or a writer. | David Baldacci | ||
| c4434ce | 57 R EEL COULDN'T TAKE her eyes | David Baldacci | ||
| 8ec3ff4 | The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America. | David Baldacci | ||
| fced536 | But he was also scared, because you did not go into his line of work, or at least survive very long in it, without a commonsensical understanding of your own mortality. | David Baldacci | ||
| 0c4ad21 | When you didn't have much, you tended to keep what you had. | David Baldacci | ||
| bb13f74 | to the left, shattering the glass on the door leading to the train car in front of them. She gripped the flash-bang, engaged it, and threw it through the opening. She whirled and shot out the glass in the window to the rear. The bullet was followed by the second flash-bang, which Robie tossed through the new opening. | David Baldacci | ||
| 767fa42 | He would have been forty-two years old in two months. His forty-first had been his very last birthday, as it turned out. | David Baldacci |