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The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4) QUOTES

The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4) QUOTES

1 " The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that’s all you need for a major life change: a dream. "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

2 " Businesses don’t give a crap about creating jobs. They care about making money. With robots, you’ll just need some tech guys to maintain and repair them. "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

3 " Dollars to donuts you’re looking at ODs there,” said Kemper, pointing to some young people getting out of cars and heading to one of the gravesites. “Over eighty thousand people in America this year alone,” she added. “More than died in Vietnam and the wars in the Middle East combined. And far more than die in traffic accidents or by guns, and it’s only getting worse. Next year we’ll probably be looking at over a hundred thousand dead. The opioid crisis is actually responsible for the life expectancy in this country starting to go down. Can you wrap your head around that? Nearly a half million dead since 2000. Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under age fifty. We had a recent study done at DEA. Life insurance companies value a human life at about five million bucks. Using that number and other factors, our people projected the economic loss to the country each year due to the opioid crisis at about a hundred billion dollars. A third of the population is on medication for pain. And they’re not getting addicted on street corners. They’re getting addicted at their doctors’ offices.” “From prescription painkillers. "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

4 " Do you know who did it? "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

5 " become "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

6 " off.” Decker nodded and looked over at where Baron and Jamison were escorting Amber and Zoe "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

7 " Sorry if I interrupted your baking.” Bond waved this off. “I was already done. The loaf’s out of the oven now. It’s one of my few pleasures left. I bake at all hours of the day and night. "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

8 " know, it’s harder to get back in shape than it is to stay in shape. "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

9 " Chapter 1 Chapter 2 "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

10 " happened?” “Yeah. "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

11 " That’s about what most of us will get, thought Decker. And then we just live on in memories and fading pictures set on tables and hung on walls. "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

12 " But then again, our life is what we make it, right? Bad choices. You can’t blame others for that. "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

13 " nervously "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

14 " mansion, "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

15 " Amos Decker was standing on the rear deck of a house where he and his FBI colleague, Alex Jamison, were staying while visiting Jamison’s sister. He used two fingers to neck-cradle his third bottle of beer of the evening while he contemplated these questions. He knew that most people never thought about these issues, because they had no reason to do so. Yet accurately answering the latter question dominated Decker’s professional life, which was really the only life he had left "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)

16 " door? "

― David Baldacci , The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)