Quotes from David Baldacci

All you need is some food, a roof over your head, a few brewskies a day, baseball in the summer and football in the fall, a missus to watch over you, and you can be a happy man.

But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.

Even though we weren't old, we were old with all we carried inside.

You should respect the past. You should never forget the past. But you can't live there.

Listening to a sermonizer who above all loves to hear himself sermonize is about as much fun as having your toes sheared off

Facing fear is better than running from it, he said. What if it's fear you can't beat? Then it might be better to be dead, he answered.

Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.

He rose, placed another small log on the fire, sat back down in his armchair, and opened his book. What are you reading? Reggie asked. On a wild night like this? Agatha Christie, of course. I still feel compelled to see if Hercule Poirot's 'little gray cells' will do their job one more time. It seems to often inspire my own brain, however inferior it might be to the diminutive Belgian's.

The problem is . . . I love you, Will Robie. More than I've loved anyone. And that's why you'll never be able to help me through this.

Humans are built for companionship

And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.

It is more than a mere rule, for rules can be changed. It is truth.

Everyone has choices. You make them and then you live with the consequences.

the business of politics, which essentially meant screwing others before they got around to screwing you.

Complacency by the masses is my greatest weapon.

Everybody's got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to.

Montgomery said, "I thought there were, like, laws against that kind of stuff?" "But if you have enough money, the laws don't apply to you

You have to give it thought when you're changing your whole life.

right or wrong, good or bad. You just didn't wake up one day and decide enough was enough because your mate had a few more wrinkles or a few more pounds.

It was blood. Blood that looked as if it had just been spilled. As I watched, it started pouring down the cavern's walls.

Look at social media. I could post something about saving orphans and I'd be attacked as a sex-trafficking pedophile. People are such animals online.

Wait a minute; I thought the Battles didn't pay the ransom." "No, they did but they got it back—well, at least most of it.

The place smelled of sweat and burned coffee and the passage of time, which held its own moldy stink.

I guess all judges get threats and stuff. Hell, these days, who doesn't? Look at social media. I could post something about saving orphans and I'd be attacked as a sex-trafficking pedophile. People are such animals online.