213 Quotes by David Baldacci

You really think so?” said Robie. “These are guys. All guys think girls talk to each other. They’ll come back for the kid for sure.” “You’re just tryin’ to scare me,” said Emma smugly. Reel shrugged. “We don’t need to. They killed one sister. They’ve probably got Sara now. They’ll kill her too, like they tried to do last night.” “What?” said Emma, looking startled. “Robie, I’m telling you, let’s just ride.

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

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

Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons seeking to find an allegory will be summarily ordained.

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.

She works in the intelligence field. They’re trained to lie and sell it like the truth. They obviously undergo the same indoctrination as politicians.

Luther glanced at the framed prints on the nightstand and wryly observed the twenty-something “little woman” next to the seventy-something husband. There were many types of lotteries in the world and not all of them state-run. Several.

It is asking a lot. But when you’re attempting to do something truly extraordinary, isn’t it fair to ask a lot in return?

And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who possessed damn near all of it.