213 Quotes by David Baldacci

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.

Decker stirred and pointed to a purple smudge on the back of Berkshire’s hand. “What’s that?” “Let’s have a closer look,” Wainwright said. She gripped a magnifying glass set on a rotating arm and positioned it over the mark. She turned on a light and aimed it at the dead woman’s hand. Peering through the glass, she said, “Appears to be a stamp of some sort.” Decker took a look through the glass. “Dominion Hospice.” He looked at Milligan, who was already tapping keys on his notebook.

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.

Give an economist a result you want, and he’ll find the numbers to justify it.

It’s not so much that time heals all wounds, as it is the passage of the years that lets us make peace with our grief in our own way.

Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays.

Life is what it is, Will. You take it as it comes.

We’ve got some unholy badasses in here, as you know. But nobody.

I’m scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I’m a laser.