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61 " Every time I walk with Alex I'm reminded both how lucky I am to have friends like him and also how unworthy I am to have friends like him. - Oliver Stone "
― David Baldacci , Hell's Corner (The Camel Club #5)
62 " I guess we're all lonely in some way. - Oliver Stone "
63 " That was the way it was, the burial ritual. You set them in the earth and walked away to keep living, until it was your turn to be left behind. "
― David Baldacci , The Guilty (Will Robie, #4)
64 " He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. "
― David Baldacci , The Christmas Train
65 " I’m actin’ pro se. Do you even know what that means?” “Yeah, it’s Latin for ‘dumbass. "
66 " I want you to know that if I could've stayed with you I would have. I fought as hard as I could. I will never understand why I had to be taken from you so soon, but I have accepted it. Yet I want you to know that there is nothing more important to me than you. I loved you from the moment I saw you. And the happiest day of my life was when you agreed to share your life with mine. I promised that I would always be there for you. And my love for you is so strong that even though I won't be there physically, I will be there in every other way. I will watch over you. I will be there if you need to talk. I will never stop loving you. Not even death is powerful enough to overcome my feelings for you. My love for you, Lizzie, is stronger than anything. "
― David Baldacci , One Summer
67 " People like to talk about other people’s misery; it makes them feel their own life is somehow better when it usually isn’t. "
― David Baldacci , Absolute Power
68 " If you really love each other, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish. "
69 " ...love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by. "
70 " Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays. "
71 " toward the small pond that he had seen before. The walls of fire ended there. An instant later the remains of the cottage exploded. He ducked and rolled again from the concussive force, almost pitching into the right side of the wall of fire. He rose and redoubled his efforts, thinking that he would reach the water. Water was a great antidote to fire. But as he neared the edge of the pond, something struck him. No scum. No algae on the surface although the ground around was full of it. What could kill green scum? And why was he being forced to run right toward the one thing that could possibly save him? Robie tossed his gun over the top of the wall of flames, pulled off his jacket, covered his head and hands with it, and threw himself through the wall of flames on the left side. "
― David Baldacci , The Hit (Will Robie, #2)
72 " Lots of people don’t talk about their military service.” “I bet heroes do.” “No. A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat. "
― David Baldacci , The Innocent (Will Robie, #1)
73 " The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like. "
― David Baldacci , The Winner
74 " 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 , The Last Mile (Amos Decker, #2)
75 " It had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser instincts, by holding out the mere possibility of award-winning carnal knowledge. It was the gender equivalent of a preemptive nuclear strike. He thought it unfair and, quite frankly, disrespectful of the entire male population. "
76 " I figure if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by. "
― David Baldacci , Split Second (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #1)
77 " Zero Day was here. "
― David Baldacci , The Forgotten (John Puller, #2)
78 " In fact, something always leads to something else. "
― David Baldacci , The Escape (John Puller, #3)
79 " National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph over political gamesmanship. - Kelly Paul "
― David Baldacci , The Sixth Man (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #5)
80 " There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough. "