Quotes from David Baldacci

When ind out, say nothing. When not in doubt, double down on that advice.

She was around fifty and her eye sockets were starting to recede into her face like a pond starting to dry up.

get information to sell, or blackmail them with.

To Sandy Violette and Caspian Dennis, for taking care

preferred entering through the front.

Just because I work there doesn't mean I have to drink all the Kool-Aid. - Veronica Knox

Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal.

Katie James kept waking up. It was nothing unusual; it was just how she was. A noise here, an internal thought there, a nightmare that seemed so real she could touch it, kept hammering away. She finally rose, got some water and settled in an armchair, flicked on a reading light, and picked up the latest Lee Child thriller.

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

would be the only time." Knox

A child's permanent personality is substantially formed by age six.

Inside the church, her coffin was placed so that Jackie Puller would be facing the altar, in accordance with Catholic tradition. A priest's funeral would have had him facing the congregation, as he would have done in life.

Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work

pointed out. But the dust disturbances could easily have been covered up as well. Only they weren't, which told Robie that the shooter didn't care if the sniper's nest was discovered. He picked up a long piece of shoe molding that had broken off, knelt down, and, using

ON HIS BED at the Residence Inn, Decker laid out all the construction plans for the American Grill that David Katz had built about fifteen years ago. The plans seemed pretty normal for such a restaurant buildout, but he didn't recognize the name of the architect set forth on the plans. In fact, the address of the business showed that it was from out of state

A Sig P228. But it had

WINDOW OPENED and the tied-together

now. But I still act like a cop sometimes.

supremely noble act in a world more and more devoid of anything remotely virtuous.

shirt cuffs, and said, "Mr. Leopold has been charged with three counts

eight-story building. It looked like a place where young people just starting out or older people downsizing might live mixed in with a healthy dose of middle-aged people who had simply never fully realized their goals in life.

He would with appropriate alliances.

Later that night Don Hope and Karl Reiger walked down the long hallway. They were several stories underground and the walls were lined with materials that prevented any form of electronic surveillance. It was a good thing since there were few buildings in the country that housed more secrets than this one, and that included the CIA's command center in Virginia and the NSA headquarters in Maryland

it was botched. A traffic police officer intervened and the whole plan fell apart. But that was from low-level external sources and had nothing to do with us. Our strike will be quick and clean. And it will succeed." "And you have your team in place?