Quotes from David Baldacci

The place smelled of mildew and rot. What

Every time I think I've got you figured out you throw me a curve. - Veronica Knox

He had avenged the murders of his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law. But that did nothing to take away the loss, the pain. Nothing ever could. Time did not heal wounds for Decker. The passage of time was irrelevant to his unique mind. Everything he had ever experienced in life was as freshly minted in his brain as the moment it was created.

was a narcissistic sociopath, or so all the consulted experts had proclaimed. That was arguably the deadliest combination nature could bestow on a human being. It

Energy is my specialty and I do white papers and briefing documents and I help write speeches for the administration

People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They

He slipped on the floor and this time his

en Washington no había realmente vencedores y vencidos, solo supervivientes.

room. It was four a.m. and he had not yet been to sleep.

someone like you could be so, how do you say, fortunate," said Bok.

A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin. And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.

My undergraduate degree is in engineering. I have a Ph.D. in biochemistry with an emphasis on renewable energy resources. And we are running out of the fossil fuel stuff. Not to mention wreaking great harm through climate change.

Do you know who did it?

While perhaps some would see it as a small issue, the fact was, if debts remained unpaid, whatever followed would genuinely be the collapse of civilization as any of them would know it...And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who possessed damn near all of it.

In the military, snipers were almost always deployed in two-person teams. A spotter added security and firepower, set up and calculated shots, kept on top of elements like wind that could vary shots. When the shooter got tired, which often happened because waiting to kill was an exhausting exercise, the team would switch roles and spotter would become sniper.

It now costs about thirteen million dollars per prisoner.

civil liberties

face as the old man tensed again while the plane bumped along. "George, it's all right. Just a little turbulence." He took a deep breath and finally eyed her squarely. "I'm on a couple of boards of companies headquartered in New York. Have to go up twice a year." Sidney glanced back at her documents, suddenly remembering something. She frowned. There was a mistake on the fourth page. That would need to be corrected when she got into

On the phone Clarisse had said that some of the mobster descendants could be men or women. That was the clue Gibson thought she had unwittingly let slip.

I had to try. I had to." "Why was that?" asked Reel. "Because I love her. Sometimes it's just as simple as that. And if someone can't act on love, then what does anything else really matter?

Heard you killed 'em later on. In the woods.

comments because he needed Slick to

Tyler. The boy immediately broke out into

Maybe that was the real reason why the place was called the White House, thought Robie.