The Whole Truth Quotes

“Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“Shaw, we’re going to die, aren’t we?” “Probably. Why?” “Just wanted confirmation.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“That’s why he’d hired Pender, who made the world believe what Creel wanted it to believe. It was often a war of attrition. You made up the truth and then buried the real thing under so much garbage that people grew weary of trying to dig through it and instead just accepted what you offered. It was the easy way out and humans were programmed to always go that way. After all, there were bills to pay, shopping to do, kids to raise, and sports to watch, so who had time for anything else?”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“Mutually assured destruction, or MAD, was a term from the cold war and the subject of much fear, all of it misplaced. MAD was actually the greatest stabilizing force in history, though so many people, ignorant of how the world really functioned, would be appalled by such a statement. MAD provided certainty, predictability, and perhaps annihilation of certain elements of humanity for the greater good.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“civil liberties”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“the parlance of the perception management field, the world had firmly entered the “gripper” stage, where the majority of people embraced as true everything they were told. It was far easier to accomplish this than most would care or dare to believe. It was easy to manipulate people. Folks had been doing it pretty much forever with results that had taken the world right to the edge of destruction.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“The Americans had been on top for a very long time, at least by recent historical standards. They were due to be overtaken. Whether by the Russians or the Chinese, or both,”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“Or convincing defense departments to buy expensive war toys that were never even used while ignoring the lesser-priced items, like body armor and night-vision goggles, that grunts on the ground actually relied on to survive.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“really could sell the U.S. military $12,000 toilets and $9,000 hammers and actually get away with it under a mountain of legal trickery and congressional hearing mumbo-jumbo.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“Because it taught me right from the start to rely only on myself,” he said”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“He said quietly, “My life is over, Katie. But whoever did this to Anna is going to die. And soon.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“inherited along with her dark good looks.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“see evidence of”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“BED. He smelled his adult sweat, tasted it”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“worktable”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“She talked to herself as she wrote. "Dark hair, about six four five, two-forty. Shoulders the size of Nebraska. Amazing blue eyes." She put down her pen. Amazing blue eyes?Where did that come from?”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

“A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.
And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth