Quotes from David Baldacci

Experience without cynicism was a sure sign your brain had dry-rotted and you hadn't bothered to notice.

she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time he had left to live.

Well, that's way above my pay grade

when civilization gets shown the door, and the rule of law don't matter for shit, and the whole damn world gets set on fire. It's always closer than you think.

He popped the trunk and pulled out from his duffel a set of NV goggles. "Good thing I didn't have my duffel in the car when we went into the water." "Yeah, good thing it was just us in the car," shot back Knox.

I'll be back," he called over

about three thousand miles separating them. She

Stop trusting the freaking Russians. They are not our friend.

never pick up a cigarette.

Williston isn't that far from here," said Kelly.

most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.

You know, technically to be called 'bourbon,' it has to be made in Kentucky

never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

me. Usually it starts

Einheiten zu planen. Sein Leben war sehr strukturiert, bot

Wars don't change how people are, Archer. They just kill a bunch 'a folks and when it's over, people go back to being how they always were. Most good, some not so good.

photo of the three of them that was

flake hit the sidewalk and then melted almost immediately. Lancaster

to be a superpower. Economically they already are. These days it's not necessarily how large your military is, but how big your bank account is, and the Chinese wallet is fatter than anyone's.

most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it.

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It had forced him into being a different person, as though a stranger's personality and attendant quirks had been superimposed over his own. But now the stranger's footprint was Decker. I am now the stranger. I'm a stranger in my own body.

Who knows what beats deeply within the hearts of people?

like whores. It