Quotes from David Baldacci

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.

Russians. They were in Germany

He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And

Social media has absolutely nothing to do with the truth. It has to do with making shitloads of money off ads trying to sell people crap they don't need. But the terrible by-product of that is giving a global platform to the absolute worst elements of society. The result is that 'truth' is whatever you can convince people it is. It's exactly what Orwell wrote about." "How does this country survive, then?

Later, under a vast, blue sky, Archer pushed the Nash fast as he roared down the road leading to Lucas Tuttle's. The big, bulky car handled well and had plenty of power, like Shaw's Buick. Before taking the wheel of the Buick, Archer hadn't driven a car in years. For obvious reasons, the prison folks had not deemed it sensible to allow convicts to command heavy pieces of equipment

People with power and means would always take advantage of those without them.

the individual can find truth by using his powers of observation and reason instead of blindly following tradition.

He moved through each

Help me. But no one had. And the Bonhams had a nice big house and drove a Bentley. Sometimes Archer just wanted to shoot life right in the face.

if you don't grow, you wither

Not a proponent of the thirty-minute-wait rule?" said Blum.

Dostoyevsky wrote that 'while nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

You think I haven't tried to quit?

any type of nearby threat. Finally, he opened his eyes

Not in the press, no. It would cause more trouble than is warranted. People need to have faith in their government.

Her face held the wonderful enthusiasm of youth as yet unblemished by life. That age was a nice time in anyone's life. And it was necessary. To get through what was coming in later years. If we all started out cynical, what a shitty world that would be.

Basically, in Alabama if you have a pulse you can have a gun, as many of them as you want.

People who lack confidence rarely win anything . - John Puller

sheen on the water's surface that could be

because of the tiny size of the apartment, was happening

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote.

when people didn't treat you like you were human, there was no possibility of trust or engagement.

Where there's faith, there is no fear." She smiled weakly. "What part of the Bible is that from?" He patted her hand. "That one, my dear, is from Father Paul Joseph Kelly. And you can have it at no extra charge.

Bad news always travels faster than good.