“john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Life is not fair any way you cut it, Michelle. You know that and I know that. We’ve lived that stuff too… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that’s… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“It was like Julie had said. You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“He had walked away, head down, feet shuffling, looking very much like a young man who had lost everything of value in… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“I figure if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“She glanced around at the tombstones. “You’re surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that if I could've stayed with you I would have. I fought as hard as I could.… — 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
![“All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.” quote by David Baldacci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5df/david-baldacci-1558_appreciation_all-you-have-to-do-to-win-a-pulitzer-pri_3158264.jpg)
