“Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“with the way the world is now, we all have to think about things beyond our lifetime. Beyond our children’s lifetime, in fact. It’s our right. It’s our duty, my good friend told me.”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“were rabid, foaming bats blindly cleaving the air around his head. And it seemed that every few steps he would run straight into a twister of mosquitoes. Though he had been paid a large amount of cash up front, he was seriously considering increasing his daily fee on this one.”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“knew. And his ex had seemed so kind on those first few dates, so infatuated with his Navy uniform, so enthusiastic in tearing up his bed. His ex-wife, a former stripper named Trish Bardoe, had married on the rebound a fellow by the name of Eddie Stipowicz, an unemployed engineer with a drinking problem. Lee thought she was heading for disaster and had tried to get custody of Renee on the grounds that her mom and stepfather could not provide for her. Well, about that time, Eddie, a sneaky runt Lee despised, invented, mostly by accident, some microchip piece of crap that had made him a gazillionaire. Lee’s custody battle had lost its juice after that. To add insult to injury, there had been stories on Eddie in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek and a number of other publications. He was famous. Their house had even been featured in Architectural Digest. Lee had gotten that issue of the Digest. Trish’s new home was grossly huge, mostly crimson red or eggplant so dark it made Lee think of the inside of a coffin. The windows were cathedral-size, the furniture large enough to become lost in and there were enough wood moldings, paneling and staircases to heat a typical midwestern town for an entire year. There were also stone fountains sculpted”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“more. Lee had done this so many times that he could have closed his eyes and his fingers would carry on, manipulating his tools of felony with enviable precision. Lee had already”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“A number of the wrought-iron fences that encircled the courtyards and gardens of the homes were painted the color of gold on their European-inspired spikes and finials.”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“sound immediately stopped. As Lee closed the door”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“And when they were elected, they arrived in Washington with absolutely no idea what to do. Their only goal had already been achieved: They had won their campaign. However,”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“People who believe themselves to be True patriots tend to be zealots. Zealots, in my opinion are one short step from being lunatics.”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“goes to the cottage. They may place her in Witness Protection without warning,”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
“have under his thumb powerful congressmen, senators, even the vice president himself,”
― David Baldacci, quote from Saving Faith
David Baldacci
Born place: in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
Born date August 5, 1960
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“As for the rest of him, his function is rather like that of an anti-computer: you feed him all kinds of carefully garnered facts, figures, and statistics and he translates them into garbage.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from This Immortal
“One of Harvey’s guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down.”
― John Scalzi, quote from The Ghost Brigades
“The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.”
― Colin Wilson, quote from The Outsider
“And the City, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its curbstones, offering you melons and green apples on the corner. Racks of yellow head scarves; strings of Egyptian beads. Kansas fried chicken and something with raisins call attention to an open window where the aroma seems to lurk. And if that's not enough, doors to speakeasies stand ajar and in that cool dark place a clarinet coughs and clears its throat waiting for the woman to decide on the key. She makes up her mind and as you pass by informs your back that she is daddy's little angel child. The City is smart at this: smelling and good and looking raunchy; sending secret messages disguised as public signs: this way, open here, danger to let colored only single men on sale woman wanted private room stop dog on premises absolutely no money down fresh chicken free delivery fast. And good at opening locks, dimming stairways. Covering your moans with its own.”
― Toni Morrison, quote from Jazz
“I see you.
Because in you,
I see me.”
― Lisa Schroeder, quote from The Day Before
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