Quotes from David Baldacci

You can't die, Roy." "Why?" "I've got a pretty good feeling I'm going to need one kick-ass lawyer, and you're the only one I know.

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit.

Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head.

Planning something never seems risky. It's in the execution where all the risk comes." "And

The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that's all you need for a major life change: a dream.

His jumpsuit was white, and on the back were the letters D and R printed in black. They stood for "death row". Mars had equated it to a snake's rattle, warning folks to stay the hell away.

At the end of a lifetime's worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us? We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn't it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?

The theory of mutual assured destruction was a great catalyst for peace.

Kids make everything better. And harder.

chauffeur of three, including a precocious, independent-minded teenage boy.

Twain had found Palestine to be very tiny, writing that he "could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.

discussion. Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision. And decisions have ramifications

The green spaces in Pyongyang were immense and many in number, but not as immense as the monuments.

posting will be at the unemployment office." "I don't think

Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.

The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another. That was why virtually every serial murderer was also a narcissist.

hob-gob of folks. And sometimes it's

Simply because you've lived through something doesn't mean you understand its true significance or even recall the details of it correctly.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Well, nobody wants to be alone, especially around Christmas. I'm sure you know that most suicides happen around the holidays. Besides, this isn't a train this time of year. It's a social club of strangers looking for a friend.

Well, honey, I'm a sixty-three-year-old fat woman with sore feet, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of diabetes. I know I don't have all that much time left, and I can either spend it moping and complaining about the things I never got to in life, or I can do something I love and help people along the way. I decided to keep plugging 'til I drop.

Decker shook his head and stood. "It goes beyond mere eccentricity. She also has a run-down farmhouse and a crappy car that she drives to work and on her rounds as the proverbial Good Samaritan." "What does that tell you?" "If you were a spy and had

I don't know. I just heard the shots." "Who are you? What is this place?" "I'm . . . I'm Sheila." "Who's the guy down there?" "Luke." "And who is Luke?" "Just a guy I know.