David Baldacci Quotes

Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge. He read the names off the

Thank God for dog lovers.

That’s about what most of us will get, thought Decker. And then we just live on in memories and fading pictures set on tables and hung on walls.

That’s what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

That’s what’s called a ‘valley fill.’ What they fill it with the coal companies call ‘overburden.’ That’s basically everything they tore off the land: trees, soil, and rock that the coal companies swe...

The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.

The guard thought about this for a few moments. When they first brought him here we did the standard strip search, no orifice overlooked.

The packs of cigarettes available here carried the typical skulls and crossbones on them, but apparently no one in North Korea cared.

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

The prisoners had also turned to look at Mars. Those doing push-ups and pull-ups stopped. They wiped off their hands and moved back against the wall. And waited. Their expressions were clear. Thank Go...

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

There are no coincidences. All you needed was more in-depth investigation to show that there are no coincidences.

There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was eno...

There’s a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth while withstanding all threats by parents to clean up your act.

There’s a phrase that critics of economic forecasting like to use: Give an economist a result you want, and he’ll find the numbers to justify it. This entire city is filled with number crunchers who l...

They were not rich. They were not powerful. They were truly the forgotten.

This message was repeated down the line until it was ringing in every guard’s ears. Shots fired and nobody knew from where or by whom. And since none of the guards had guns, that meant one of the pris...

Those who only watched pro football from the safety of their stadium seats or big-screen TVs could never imagine the devastating power of enormous men running at speed into other enormous men. It was...

Thus, he and his gun had been sent to do the deed, in the interests of national security, which seemed to be a catchall to justify any death, anywhere, any time.

Was it a fire in the kitchen?No, a bomb in the basement.