Quotes from David Baldacci

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.....

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone.

We cannot live without memories, but we cannot live within them either.

But if you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.

you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus. I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

IF U WANT TO KICK THE TIGER ASS BECAREFULL OF HIS TEETH FIRST.

There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.

It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.