The Edge Quotes

“we are all screwed up, Alex. All of us, including me. It’s only a matter of degrees. What happened to you was horrifying and traumatizing and unfair as hell. None of it had anything to do with you and everything to do with the person who did it. So with that said, I’ll answer your question: Can you ever get back to where you started? The answer is no.” She shivered and started to say something, but he put a finger to her lips. “You will be better. You will be stronger. You will be able to take on far more than you ever thought possible. That’s the thing with life, Alex. It tests us, all the time. It wants to see how much we can take, before we crack.” “You sound like you speak from experience,” she said in a hollow voice. “The Army’s fundamental concept is based on breaking down every soldier to nothing, absolutely nothing. And then rebuilding that soldier in the version of the human fighting machine they want and need to do the job. I’m not saying it’s perfect or right or anything. I’m just saying that’s the deal. Only I volunteered to be put through that transformation. What happened to you took place without your consent. But the end result can be similar. You come out of it changed. But you come out of it tougher, because you took the worst shit life can throw at you, and you’re”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“The train cleared the tunnel, and when it slowed and stopped at Stresa, the last station before Milan, Devine got off.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“You’re the one saying that, not us.” “Then test him.” “We do that, it’s as good as saying we don’t believe him.” Devine retorted, “I thought our job was to”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“physical feats when threatened. And a brain that could figure out most things in order to keep you”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“Ain’t none of us guaranteed another hour of living, don’t care who you are or how much you got. Might as well get up early and enjoy what time you got left, I say.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“with”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“Two roads diverged in the woods and I, I took the one less traveled,’” he had told them. He had learned that the line was often misinterpreted because Frost had regrets in his life and had not actually taken that road.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“kids getting free school lunches, how does the place charge these prices and sell”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“Strong as a bear, good health, sharp mind. I would’ve gone long before her, that’s for sure, if nature had any say about it. Both her parents lived well into their nineties.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“Freddy”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“Do I need an alibi? But I guess the statute of limitations has long passed.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“Snipers”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“Breathing exercises, meditation, using certain calming phrases, being in the moment, trying to knock as much cortisol out of my system as I can and replacing it with dopamine.” She ran her gaze over him. “You should try it; you look very stressed.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“Because as time goes on, and you start to lose people dear to you, you realize nothing should prevent you from being with them while you still can.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“So they wasted time in attempting to flee or in pleading for mercy to men who had none to give.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“THE BODY WILL NOT GO where the mind has not been.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“Because as time goes on, and you start to lose people dear to you, you realize nothing should prevent you from being with them while you still can.” “Easier”
― David Baldacci, The Edge

“What happened to you took place without your consent. But the end result can be similar. You come out of it changed. But you come out of it tougher, because you took the worst shit life can throw at you, and you’re still standing.”
― David Baldacci, The Edge