Quotes from David Baldacci

Life is hard for everybody, Alex. Anybody who says otherwise has just decided to ignore all the shit that comes with waking up every day and walking out the door.

The gal likes to have fun. But I'm in my fifties. Hell, I could be her father." "Hasn't stopped people in the past.

America was full of opportunity, everybody said. You just had to unlock it. Only they forgot to give out keys for LuAnn's kind. Or maybe they didn't forget at all. Maybe it was intentional.

Always go with your gut. Overthinking things has ruined more good dreams than I don't know what.

The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties .

And it was a good thing. Because despite all the unsettling things that his mind had been doing while he was here, the ability to be hugged or have your hand clenched by another without flinching, that simple act, which just about everyone else took for granted, had brought Decker a bit closer to the person he had once been. Before he had died on a football field and woken up as someone else entirely.

These rich Americans often have more than one home. They travel between them and enjoy the fruits of their greed and exploitation of the poor.

Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.

Whether it was on the battlefield or during an investigation, if you weren't moving forward then what good were you?

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

Luther glanced at the framed prints on the nightstand and wryly observed the twenty-something "little woman" next to the seventy-something husband. There were many types of lotteries in the world and not all of them state-run. Several

O-6, a Navy captain, right below a rear admiral lower half. That had been what his brother had meant by the term "salt." A captain in the Navy was of equal rank with a major in the Army, a senior officer.

Not everything can be learned safely in a classroom, Vega. Education is not so neat and tidy.

Even a rich man can spend more than he's got coming in. And that makes him a poor man.

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

The Americans had been on top for a very long time, at least by recent historical standards. They were due to be overtaken. Whether by the Russians or the Chinese, or both

They're both black. I don't like to cut perfectly fine coffee with cream or sugar.

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible.

And yet a man with nothing to live for is a powerful man indeed. Perhaps

was dark. He scooted over to the chair that his butt had graced so often he'd worn off the paint. The trach was in her neck, the way they did it for long-term usage, because, for among other reasons, it was easier to keep clean than when it was down the throat. The attached ventilator was pumping away, keeping her lungs inflated. The vitals sign monitor beeped away. One end of an

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.

It was like seeking water while in a desert, you just required it and didn't care how you got it.

I'm trying to decide if you're hopelessly naïve or I'm a confirmed cynic.

She's been nothing but supportive of me, no matter how many mistakes I made. I know she loves me and I love her." "Sounds like something you should tell her yourself, at your first opportunity. You don't want to squander chances with your family," added Robie, drawing a quick glance from Reel. "You never know if