“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“I figure if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.” — 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
“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
“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
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
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
“if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.” — 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
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