“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
David Baldacci
Born place: in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
Born date August 5, 1960
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“I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).”
― Sabrina Ward Harrison, quote from Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself
“A FLAT, still sandy, still meadowy region… a superb range of ocean beach—miles and miles of it. The bright sun, the sparkling waves, the foam, the view—a sail here and there in the distance. Walt Whitman had written that”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people
is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see
anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its
brother death, seem so contented.”
― Sinclair Lewis, quote from It Can't Happen Here
“The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“In sum I'm not what either parent or I had in mind. One hoped I'd be astonishing, forceful, triumphant—heroical in other words. One dead. I myself conventional. I turn out I.”
― John Barth, quote from Lost in the Funhouse
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