“Bad news always travels faster than good.”
― David Baldacci, quote from Hour Game
“Technically, I’m right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don’t think anyone can really quantify it—that I don’t. But that’s okay. I’m happy with”
― David Baldacci, quote from Hour Game
“what I do have, and so are my clients.” He took the piece he was carrying and set it up on an empty easel but did not uncover it.”
― David Baldacci, quote from Hour Game
“Growing old is so darn unappealing until you consider the alternative.”
― David Baldacci, quote from Hour Game
“Wait a minute; I thought the Battles didn’t pay the ransom.” “No, they did but they got it back—well, at least most of it.”
― David Baldacci, quote from Hour Game
“It is all very simple really. There are no dark problems about it. I have no grudge against society, no bitter hatred of my fellow-men. It just happens that the problems of piracy interest me, suit my particular bent of thought. It is not just a matter of brutality and bloodshed, you know. The organization takes many hours of many days, every detail of a landing has to be thought out, and prepared. I hate disorder, or any slipshod method of attack. The whole thing is very much like a geometrical problem, it is food for the brain. And then—well—then I have my fun, my spice of excitement, my beating of the other fellow. It is very satisfying, very absorbing.”
― Daphne du Maurier, quote from Frenchman's Creek
“My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Devil in Winter
“Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from Last Chance to See
“You're crazy if you think that you can run off and change your identity. This unfeeling, preppy girl thing you got going on," he motions his hand at my tank top, white frilly skirt, and curly hair, "is nothing but bull shit. You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Secret of Ella and Micha
“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
― Aristotle, quote from The Nicomachean Ethics
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