People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. — David Baldacci Expertise Copy Share Image
A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect? — David Baldacci Ambition Copy Share Image
“To her, companionship must have seemed highly overrated.” — David Baldacci Companionship Copy Share Image
“My mom said you always write thank-you letters, and besides, I wanted to.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“That might not seem like much to some, but when you have nothing, anything seems like a fortune.” — David Baldacci Fortune Copy Share Image
Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight) — David Baldacci Confidence 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 was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past. Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Based on my own experience, boys will mess with your heart and girls with your head.” — David Baldacci Boys Copy Share Image
“The green spaces in Pyongyang were immense and many in number, but not as immense as the monuments.” — David Baldacci Korea Copy Share Image
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never… — David Baldacci Book Copy Share Image
“Damn it, why couldn't I have a photographic memory!" "Thank God you don't," Caleb exclaimed in a disgusted tone. "What makes you… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“room peering out, a gun in one hand, his other hand curled around the window drape. “Dad?” said Tyler in a shaky… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Lots of people don’t talk about their military service.” “I bet heroes do.” “No. A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the… — David Baldacci Military Copy Share Image
“Decker gazed over at him. “You can still marry again. Have kids, Ross.” “I think raising kids is a younger man’s game.… — David Baldacci Raising kids Copy Share Image
See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well… — David Baldacci Church Copy Share Image
Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B,… — David Baldacci Absolutes Copy Share Image
Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's… — David Baldacci Comeback Copy Share Image
“We’ve apparently come a long way since the 1966 Mustang,” added Michelle. “I drove my brother’s hand-me-down in college. It had something… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“She wrote the phone number down on another slip of paper, rushed into the bathroom, crumpled up the letter, and flushed it… — David Baldacci Law enforcement Copy Share Image
“-“I remember my father telling me about England’s redrawing of India’s boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu… — David Baldacci Conflicts Copy Share Image
“Nearly the physical size of Los Angeles, Bukchang housed fifty thousand prisoners who were kept in by, among many other things, a… — David Baldacci Guilt Copy Share Image
“What happened to you as a child, particularly something bad, changed you, absolutely and completely. It was like part of your brain… — 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 had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser… — David Baldacci Argument Copy Share Image
“Well, that dog was all Diamond had. When you love something, you can’t just sit by and not do anything.’ ‘I suppose… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“his former boss at CIA, Simpson had still been sitting in death, only with him instead of a car seat it was… — David Baldacci Dead man Copy Share Image
Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better. — David Baldacci Assumption Copy Share Image