Quotes from David Baldacci

I had to so something. Anything that would make me feel like I was accomplishing something. To make me feel that I was not a failure.

So it was a true sunrise, where the colors changed at first subtly and then suddenly transformed the heavens in a way that no other occurrence could. Short of a nuclear bomb and its towering mushroom cloud. Yet both were transformative in their own right. One side of the world was lit, the other enveloped in blackness. The bomb's kiss was for real. The sun's movement was a metaphor for either darkness descending or light arising.

entirely clear over the screams of the crowds. The

The girl had never ridden in a car before. She had probably never even seen a car, just the old trucks used at the camp.

There are times in everyone's life when loss strikes. When one's heart breaks. And there are times when you truly feel as though you have no heart left, so shattered is it.

Mankind has gotten so very sick. Sometimes I'm glad that I'm very near the end of my days on earth.

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.

People who lack confidence rarely win anything," he noted.

I don't like wannabe authoritarians who lie in order to destroy people who disagree with them. In that regard, I despise Stalin, too. Are you a fan of McCarthy's? Or are you not political? So many people aren't in this town. They apparently don't have the guts.

There were sixteen hundred officers on the Capitol police force to guard roughly one square mile of land. It was a ratio any other city would have killed for. Congress liked to feel safe, and it did control the purse strings. And

She'd popped the Heineken open and drunk it.

Hey, it's all good.

It's like Mark Twain said, everybody complains about the weather, but no one ever does a damn thing about it.

He typed in a request and sent

There's a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth

How do you let magic die?" I said slowly. I didn't know why, but I felt a great sense of loss at this. "By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing, Vega.

did begin his shooting at

BED. He smelled his adult sweat, tasted it

Why don't you come by around six?

that one could never be the same afterward. It pushed bone, muscle, ligaments, and brains to places they were never intended to go. It was no wonder that so many men who had played the game were now suffering the long-term debilitating effects of entertaining millions and making large sums of money for doing so.

That's about what most of us will get, thought Decker. And then we just live on in memories and fading pictures set on tables and hung on walls.

government leaders made decisions that would have massive impact on millions of people, all without their knowledge or consent.

see evidence of

It was the darkest moments before dawn broke. He had been here for hours. It felt like ten minutes, because he really hadn't come up with anything. But that was okay. Miracles and epiphanies rarely happened in the middle of criminal investigations. If you wanted something like that you needed to turn on the TV.