“But if you don’t know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus.
I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons seeking to find an allegory will be summarily ordained.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“At the end of a lifetime’s worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us?”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“It had been so long since we were a family that I had almost forgotten the joy that came with having one. All the small and large moments, many that I had taken for granted while they were occuring, no doubt bolstered by the certainty that there would be many more.
Yet such endearing and memorable engagements in life are promised to no one. They come and go and one has to be aware that there is no assurance they will ever come again. It made me tremble to think what I had lost.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“will paint in pleasing colors.” “How do you know which colors to use?” I asked. “There are instructions for each item on your workstation.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn’t it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all at once.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn’t care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to know that he had a friend in me.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“Even though we weren't old, we were old with all we carried inside.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“Listening to a sermonizer who above all loves to hear himself sermonize is about as much fun as having your toes sheared off”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“It was blood. Blood that looked as if it had just been spilled. As I watched, it started pouring down the cavern’s walls.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“You are a danger to her and all of Wormwood, Vega, do you not understand that?”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
“At the end of a lifetime’s worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us? We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn’t it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Finisher
David Baldacci
Born place: in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
Born date August 5, 1960
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“I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Failure will never overtake we if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
― Og Mandino, quote from The Greatest Salesman in the World
“Debbie often talked about Gretchen as if she was his mistress. But to Archie it sometimes felt like the other way around. As if, by moving back in with his ex-wife, he was cheating on Gretchen.
That was probably worthy of bringing up in therapy”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“My arms were covered in scratches and had bled a little so I licked my finger and cleaned them off and thought God would have done a better job if he made blood taste like Three Musketeers bars.”
― Lesley Kagen, quote from Whistling In the Dark
“You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from The Hob's Bargain
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