Quotes from David Baldacci

Issues. The dreaded word. It seemed so innocuous. Issues. Everyone had issues.

There're many things to love in this country. The skinheads are not one of them.

That might not seem like much to some, but when you have nothing, anything seems like a fortune.

Las librerías son el centro de la democracia. Lo primero que los dictadores hacen cuando toman un país es cerrar todas las librerías, porque las librerías están llenas de ideas y diferencias de opinión, todas las cosas que decimos querer en una sociedad libre y abierta, Así que mantengámoslas, apoyémosles, abrasémoslas y amémoslas.

Another important dinner party with Jennifer, his soon-to-be wife, and her family and circle of social and business acquaintances. People at that level of sophistication apparently didn't have mere friends they hung with. Everyone served a particular function, the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. Or at least that was the intent, although Jack had his own opinion on the matter

But the more intelligence you had beforehand, the better the eventual fight would go.

this passage and escaped via the cafeteria or

The rain was pouring outside and he heard a crack of thunder. A moment later the accompanying lightning brightened his room briefly.

It had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser instincts, by holding out the mere possibility of award-winning carnal knowledge. It was the gender-battle equivalent of a preemptive nuclear strike. He thought it unfair and, quite frankly, disrespectful of the entire male population.

My mom said you always write thank-you letters, and besides, I wanted to.

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both because of the cold and also to help hide his face.

A squatter for life is inhabiting my mind. And he happens to be me.

But if your brain went, you were also gone, though your body lingered and became dependent on someone else to take care of it. And that would be your loved ones' last impression of you, even though it wasn't really you, at least not anymore.

goes to the cottage. They may place her in Witness Protection without warning

Across the room he had placed a mirror he'd found in her bathroom on a table. It was angled so that he could see her face reflected in it, while he remained hidden from her.

Having exhausted the possibilities based on his limited investigation so far, he got out of the car, walked down a wooden boardwalk, and reached the beach. It was nearly six-thirty, and the café where he was meeting Timmins was close by. He decided to walk along the sand both to relax a bit and to think some more while the waves pounded the shore.

next step?" she said. "We have made contact. We expect her to do the same

The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America.

An army controlled by the whim of the lowest soldier is not an army at all. It is anarchy.

far less than one block in Brooklyn.

If it comes to it, don't miss, guys, he said under his breath. When the president appeared, he was boxed in on all sides by the A-team protection detail that formed a wall of Kevlar and flesh around him. Alex knew these agents; they were a rock-solid crew. The president stepped onto the stage and shook some important hands while his wife, the governor, the chief of staff and Gray took their seats behind the podium. Brennan joined them

But he was also scared, because you did not go into his line of work, or at least survive very long in it, without a commonsensical understanding of your own mortality.

again. "And maybe there's something a lot stronger and