DAVID BALDACCI QUOTES V

American novelist (1960- )

Like a spreading pandemic, the video ignited a maelstrom worldwide. From blog to blog, chat room to chat room, e-mail to e-mail, the story passed. With each retelling it grew in proportion until the globe was in apparent jeopardy of being overrun at any moment by crazy, bloodthirsty Russians. Within three days after Konstantin's sad proclamation, the world rang with his name. Soon half the earth's population, including many who had no idea who the U.S. president or the pope was, knew all about the dead Russian.

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The Whole Truth


Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal.

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Wish You Well

Tags: rules


I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.

DAVID BALDACCI

Split Second


There are many kinds of love, and people have the capacity to love many different people.

DAVID BALDACCI

One Summer

Tags: love


Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

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Absolute Power

Tags: chance


Them two people lost each other, but they's still in love. Now, people die, but love don't never die. Made the well magic. Anybody done got a wish, they come here, wish for it, and it'll happen. Ever time. Rain or shine.

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Wish You Well

Tags: love


You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life.

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The Forgotten

Tags: life


Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays.

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The Christmas Train

Tags: Christmas


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

The Finisher


Things might look bad now, but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.

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The Christmas Train

Tags: change


American football was thick in the air; war on the gridiron they called it. Well, at least those who had never been in the real thing called it that.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Camel Club

Tags: football


Who knows what beats deeply within the hearts of people?

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Split Second


Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Innocent


The knowledge that at any moment you would be expected to and in fact would sacrifice your life for that of another man, for the benefit of the common good, made for a supremely noble act in a world more and more devoid of anything remotely virtuous.

DAVID BALDACCI

Absolute Power

Tags: knowledge


She had known young men who'd trained with her in Pakistan that kept what they called journals of sacrifice, their sacrifice. The West, she knew, called them suicide diaries. She had read accounts in the papers of these diaries being found after the young men had died for Islam. Djamila had thought about what the last day of her life would look like. In her head she ran through what she would be thinking when the time came, how she would react. She had many questions and some doubts that troubled her. Would she be brave? She had imagined herself being noble and stoic, but was that realistic? Would she instantly be transported to paradise? Would anyone mourn her? And yet this also made her feel guilty, for her love of God should be enough; as it was for all Muslims.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Camel Club

Tags: Men


I suppose it may be God's way of telling us to love people while they're here, because tomorrow they may be gone. I guess that's a pretty sorry answer, but I'm afraid it's the only one I've got.

DAVID BALDACCI

Wish You Well

Tags: love


Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Winner

Tags: facts


They are finding females have better motor skills then men. This is a skill very much needed for snipers. They are also able to lie in one position for many hours a day. I have gone to military bases and fired the rifles so I have an idea what it requires. I put the descriptions in the book. Through Jessica people can understand it is not just falling on the ground, looking through a scope, and firing the rifle. It is actual a science that involves a lot of math and physics.

DAVID BALDACCI

interview, Crime Spree Magazine, November 14, 2017

Tags: math


At precisely zero hours UT, or midnight Universal Time, the image of the tortured man erupted onto the world's most popular Web site. The first six words he spoke would be remembered forever by everyone who heard them. "I am dead. I was murdered."

DAVID BALDACCI

The Whole Truth

Tags: time


I'm not asking for miracles, Seth, just a little info when you get a chance. That's all.

DAVID BALDACCI

Absolute Power

Tags: chance