Quotes from David Baldacci

a Mexican border town just across the line from Brownsville, Texas, one of the most dangerous places on earth.

The spokeswoman said, "The victims, a mother and her young son, have been identified, but we're withholding their

There were five, not counting the guide. The man and

you ran when it was fifty degrees below zero, your lungs would hemorrhage and you'd drown in your own engorged corpuscles.

Shaw didn't answer, He didn't know anything, not for sure. But what he did have was an instict that almost never led him down the wrong path. And every inner warning signal he had was blaring away.

Then you take her without reservation, disclaimer, parental demands, or otherwise. You take her as she is with all her faults, weaknesses, idiosyncrasies, and requirements. You take her without qualification, with no strings attached by anyone else, because that's what loving someone means.

sixty-four-thousand-dollar question

A bottle of suntan powder was on the table between them.

phone and answered

Decker said, "It doesn't have to be this

sound immediately stopped. As Lee closed the door

Me being arrested would

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close." Frank

Life is what it is, Alex. You just have to accept it, because you have no other choice.

In the grand scheme of a trillion planets in the universe we're just not that damn important anyway. And humans are rotten to the core.

remarkable was that she had been the first female detective in the Burlington Police Department. As far as he knew she was still the only one. And she had been his partner. They had made more arrests leading to more convictions than anyone in

with me to trace the call. And you

Time did not heal wounds for him. Not for someone who could never forget. Their murders were as fresh now as when they occurred. Not just the visuals, but also the emotional hatchet attached to the mental images. They would be until the day he died.

Hemingway had always considered ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

Well, that's my problem, isn't it? J'ai perdu la beauté de ma culture. Je suis américaine maintentant.

Growing old is so darn unappealing until you consider the alternative.

Kennedy's guy had never been the same. Quit the Service, divorced, finished his human existence in obscurity in some rat's hole in Mississippi

It doesn't take much for civilized people to become animals.

He had walked away, head down, feet shuffling, looking very much like a young man who had lost everything of value in his life.