Quotes from The Whole Truth

David Baldacci ·  406 pages

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“Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Whole Truth


“It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Whole Truth


“BED. He smelled his adult sweat, tasted it”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Whole Truth


“A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.
And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Whole Truth


“She talked to herself as she wrote. "Dark hair, about six four five, two-forty. Shoulders the size of Nebraska. Amazing blue eyes." She put down her pen. Amazing blue eyes?Where did that come from?
― David Baldacci, quote from The Whole Truth



“That’s why he’d hired Pender, who made the world believe what Creel wanted it to believe. It was often a war of attrition. You made up the truth and then buried the real thing under so much garbage that people grew weary of trying to dig through it and instead just accepted what you offered. It was the easy way out and humans were programmed to always go that way. After all, there were bills to pay, shopping to do, kids to raise, and sports to watch, so who had time for anything else?”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Whole Truth


About the author

David Baldacci
Born place: in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
Born date August 5, 1960
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