“You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don’t.” “Great,”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
“Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.'
'What?' said Mars, looking too.
'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.'
'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
“His jumpsuit was white, and on the back were the letters D and R printed in black. They stood for “death row”. Mars had equated it to a snake’s rattle, warning folks to stay the hell away.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
“posting will be at the unemployment office.” “I don’t think”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
“So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
“He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
“Montgomery dude said he killed my parents.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
“He would have been forty-two years old in two months. His forty-first had been his very last birthday, as it turned out.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
David Baldacci
Born place: in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
Born date August 5, 1960
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“We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children. —Native American saying”
― Charles de Lint, quote from The Very Best of Charles de Lint
“Hear him now as he toils. He has a long garden-implement in his hand, and he is sending up the death-rate in slug circles with a devastating rapidity. "Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay Ta-ra-ra BOOM—" And the boom is a death-knell. As it rings softly out on the pleasant spring air, another stout slug has made the Great Change.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from A Damsel in Distress
“Do you try to pick up all the mortal girls you almost kill?"
“Just the ones who don’t scream and run,” he said. And then he startled me further by touching my face, just under one eye. I tensed just a little, as I always did when someone noticed my eyes. Bracing myself for the if only.
But there was no revulsion in his gaze and nothing but fascination in his touch. “And the ones with pretty eyes,” he added.”
― N.K. Jemisin, quote from The Broken Kingdoms
“I was their bar freak, they needed me
to make themselves feel
better.
just like, at times, I needed that
graveyard.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
― Stephen Hunt, quote from The Court of the Air
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