Strangers in Time Quotes

“We may dream so often about another sort of life that we forget to live the one that we already possess.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“Humans make poor gods. We’re just not up to it.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“Three people standing together against all the world could hurl at them.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“Sometimes it simply comes down to the serendipity of whom one meets and when.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“Books filled with truth, turned to ash, and turning minds the same in their absence.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“Pain was a universal connection; everyone felt it at some point in their lives, physically, mentally, and/or emotionally. No one, rich or poor, young or old, was exempt from its claws.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“She knew there was a price to be paid with important relationships like that. They were wonderful, but they also had the capacity to exact a punishing price when one in the relationship was gone. Grief, sadness, anger at a loss, and terrible, unrelenting hurt were the costs to be paid for loving and being loved. It felt completely worth the bargain right up until the very moment payment was demanded. She”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“You will always have her inside you, no matter where you go. That’s how powerful love is. She carried you inside her for nearly a year. That bond is unbreakable. Wherever you go, she will be there with you. It’s… it’s like a law—no, a covenant, that’s the word. It’s forever.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“You Catholic?” The sergeant major said this as though that also might be a problem. “Just smells and bells to me, sir,”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“But for Oliver, as even a casual observer of history could say with complete confidence, such one-man governing structures never ended well for anyone, not even the strongman. Humans make poor gods. We’re just not up to it.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“We must make the best of what we have. To seek out something different merely because it is perceived better by standards laid out by people we may not even know? I would say that is the height of self-deceit.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“But for Oliver, as even a casual observer of history could say with complete confidence, such one-man governing structures never ended well for anyone, not even the strongman.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“We all need someone at certain times in our lives. It makes the inevitable pain lessened and the periods of happiness exalted.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“together they had confronted a collective hardship that, at times, seemed beyond anyone's capacity.
It spoke well indeed of the resilience of the human spirit when one had friends with whom to share the sometimes calamitous burden of existence.
We all need someone at certain times in our lives. It makes the inevitable pain lessened and the periods of happiness exalted.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“It was simply a question of being needed, really." "They needed me. ... I choose life, and truth be known, I need them.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“I think it was braver to stay here and keep tryin' to do the right thin'.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“They needed me. ... I choose life, and truth be known, I need them.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“It wasn't so much the decisions you made, it was simply who you stumbled into while you were trying to work out important matters. Run into one person instead of another, and one's future could be completely altered.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“inevitable”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“what else does one do with books besides read them and then wonder about what one has just read? And, even more pleasurably, what one will read next?”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“The eyes of a bibliophile are competent guides. They essentially sparkle when they alight upon books, as do a gourmand’s when he samples a chef’s fine creations, or those of a wine connoisseur when he is presented with a row of dusty Bordeaux bottles.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“Pen and paper over bombs and bullets.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“and they had sat in this very room swirling the amber liquor and leisurely talking about things that did not seem of any particular significance: the weather, the assortment of books that had just come in, the disreputable state of the kitchen. Next, the loud cat in the alley. Then the odd bit of gossip each had heard about this or that person.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“You never really knew what you were capable of, Molly believed, until the moment came to be capable of it.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“It spoke well indeed of the resilience of the human spirit when one had friends with whom to share the sometimes calamitous burden of existence. We all need someone at certain times in our lives. It makes the inevitable pain lessened and the periods of happiness exalted.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“It wasn’t so much the decisions you made, it was simply who you stumbled into while you were trying to work out important matters. Run into one person instead of another, and one’s future could be completely altered, as Oliver had said in somewhat different language on New Year’s Eve”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“Someone can spell everything quite nicely and it still wouldn't be worth reading. I've read books like that. Or tried to.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“Dreams are never in context, are they? That’s the point of dreams, of reaching for something so impossible, so impractical, often something so undeserved, that the act of wishing for it defines more about us than the actual dream does.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“As she said, what else does one do with books besides read them and then wonder about what one has just read?”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time

“She knew there was a price to be paid with important relationships like that. They were wonderful, but they also had the capacity to exact a punishing price when one in the relationship was gone. Grief, sadness, anger at a loss, and terrible, unrelenting hurt were the costs to be paid for loving and being loved. It felt completely worth the bargain right up until the very moment payment was demanded. She would never get over the loss of Ignatius Oliver, but she would always benefit from having had him in her life.”
― David Baldacci, Strangers in Time