“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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“Then what in your opinion is a good story?'
'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love for the mother. Love for the land. Comedy. Terror. One tremendous villain whom we must love also. All the elements properly balanced and mixed together, item after item, like a perfect meal with a dance of tastes. There you have it.”
― Vikram Chandra, quote from Red Earth and Pouring Rain
“I like to tease a bit, if he'll let me, with the owners' son, two, whose name happens to be Chandler, and who himself likes to play in the big bins of nails.
And so, forgetting myself, thank God: Hullo. Hullo, short and relatively new. Welcome again to the land of the living, to time, this hill of beans. Chandler will have, as usual, none of it. He keeps his mysterious counsel.”
― Annie Dillard, quote from Holy the Firm
“You cannot repay evil with evil.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.”
― Will Durant, quote from The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“As I walked into Jubilee I repossessed the world. Trees, houses, fences, streets, cambe back to me, in their own sober and familiar shapes. Unconnected to the life of love, uncolored by love, the world resumes its own, its natural and callous importance. This is first a blow, then an odd consolation. And already I felt my old self--my old devious, ironic, isolated self--beginning to breathe again and stretch and settle, though all around it my body clung cracked and bewildered, in the stupid pain of loss.”
― Alice Munro, quote from Lives of Girls and Women
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