Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it? — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“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:… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
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… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“That’s good to hear, Billy. Kids have enough shit to deal with without somebody who is supposed to love them beating the crap out… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy! — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have. — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“two unconscious, bleeding men and then over at the girl behind the bar. She was staring at him openmouthed, the glass-rag and beer mug… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
