“Everybody’s got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“I guess it comes down to greed. You don’t pay folks, you make more money. That and thinking one race wasn’t as good as another.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“What’s a quick fling in the sack compared to decades of indifference?”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“She wrote the phone number down on another slip of paper, rushed into the bathroom, crumpled up the letter, and flushed it down the toilet. For one paralyzing moment she envisioned federal law enforcement agents hiding somewhere in the White House intercepting her toilet water and reconstructing the letter. But that was impossible. That was the stuff of Orwell’s 1984. Yet in some ways, by living at the White House, she had already seen Orwell’s masterpiece of “fascism perfected” in a way most Americans could never imagine. She”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“When you love someone you got to be prepared to hate too.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“Farming was a risky proposition under even the best of circumstances. Folks who toiled in the dirt could do everything right and a drought or an early freeze could come and wipe them out.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time he had left to live.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“Based on my own experience, boys will mess with your heart and girls with your head.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“thousand yards of this place.” “Who is she?”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“And asking people to take the time to read and actually think about stuff? Heaven forbid.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“Issues. The dreaded word. It seemed so innocuous. Issues. Everyone had issues.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“My mom said you always write thank-you letters, and besides, I wanted to.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“While it was true that the president of the United States was the world’s ultimate juggler of tasks, it was also a fact that the First Lady, traditionally, was no slouch in that department either.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“When you didn’t have much, you tended to keep what you had.”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
“engine, picked up the pages, ripped off the rubber band, and”
― David Baldacci, quote from First Family
David Baldacci
Born place: in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
Born date August 5, 1960
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“The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Making Money
“Yeryüzünde hiçbir şey insana hiçlik kadar baskı yapamaz”
― Stefan Zweig, quote from Chess Story
“Some would probably call him a villain. Others would say his magic makes him closer to a god.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“she felt there was between them an unexpected mutual confidence, confidence of the kind that could spring up between two strangers who found themselves thrown together quite fortuitously in difficult circumstances that might turn out to be either frightening or amusing. And”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Jewel in the Crown
“I suppose the truth is simply that it was possible for benefits like these to accrue only to a Negro lucky enough to remain in the poor but relatively benign atmosphere of Virginia. For here in this worn-out country with its decrepit little farms there was still an ebb and flow of human sympathy—no matter how strained and imperfect—between slave and master, even an understanding (if sometimes prickly) intimacy; and in this climate a black man had not yet become the cipher he would become in the steaming fastnesses of the far South but could get off in the woods by himself or with a friend, scratch his balls and relax and roast a stolen chicken over an open fire and brood upon women and the joys of the belly or the possibility of getting hold of a jug of brandy, or pleasure himself with thoughts of any of the countless tolerable features of human existence.”
― William Styron, quote from The Confessions of Nat Turner
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