The Target Quotes

“We cannot live without memories, but we cannot live within them either.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Smart, dedicated people lost their lives all the time as they trained to be the best they could be to serve their country. Celebrities broke a nail and they immediately took to Twitter, alerting their millions of followers to the “injury,” which in turn elicited thousands of replies from people with apparently not enough going on in their lives. And all the while brave men and women died in silence, forgotten by all except their families.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“him.” “Do you have anyone else you’re tight with?” asked Julie. “Used to. Not anymore.” “Because they’re not around anymore?” asked Julie. “Something like that.” “Robie really respects you. I can tell.” “I would imagine there aren’t many who he does respect,” replied Reel. “I bet you’re the same.” “We trained together, Robie and me,” said Reel. “He was the best, Julie. I always thought I was, but I have to admit, he’s better.” “Why?” “The intangibles. On the big stuff we’re equal. Even he would agree with that. It’s the small stuff, though, where I fall behind. Sometimes I let my emotions get the better of me.” “That only means you’re human. I wish Robie would let that happen to him more often. He keeps it all inside.” “Which is exactly what we’re trained to do,” Reel pointed out. “A job isn’t everything, is it? It’s not your whole life.” “Some jobs are. Our jobs are; at least mine used to be.” “And now?” asked Julie. Reel glanced at her as she steered the car through the wet streets and over a bridge into D.C. “Maybe I’m starting a transition phase.” “Into another job, or retiring?” “Retiring? How old do you think I am?” Reel chuckled, but Julie’s expression remained serious. “Robie told me you don’t retire from the sort of work you two do.” Reel glanced at her again. “He did?” Julie nodded. “Well, then it must be true. I’ve never known Will Robie to bullshit.” Julie put a hand on Reel’s arm. “But you can make”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“It was not known precisely how many labor camps there were in North Korea, although the international consensus was six. The fact that they were numbered and those numbers reached at least as high as twenty-two was an indicator of their pervasiveness. At least two hundred thousand North Koreans, or nearly one percent of the entire population, called these labor camps home.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“It takes courage to speak your heart, when others do not want you to.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Google makes everybody a genius.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“discussion. Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It’s only a decision. And decisions have ramifications”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“You know what happened to her predecessors?"
"Of course. It's sort of like the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers. Bad things happen to them."
"Defense Against the Dark Arts?"
"You know, in Harry Potter.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Déjà vu Orwell's 1984”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Dead by her hand. All dead. The price of her freedom? Chung-Cha’s soul.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“twenty-”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It’s only a decision. And decisions have ramifications either way.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“from them up on arrival.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“But a lie was as good as the truth when it achieved one’s goal.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“DD”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“These rich Americans often have more than one home. They travel between them and enjoy the fruits of their greed and exploitation of the poor.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Robie.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“An army controlled by the whim of the lowest soldier is not an army at all. It is anarchy.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Doch im Augenblick, in dieser Minute, wohnte dem Ort unleugbar eine schlichte, tief sitzende Schönheit inne.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Min had innumerable questions, and Chung-Cha tried to answer them all as best she could. “Is the Supreme Leader really three meters tall?” “I have never met him, so I do not know.” “They say he is the strongest person on earth and his mind is full of all the knowledge in the world.” “They said the same to me about his father.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“CHUNG-CHA HAD NEVER MET a westerner who could tell the difference between a Chinese and a Japanese, much less a North Korean and a South Korean.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“There’re many things to love in this country. The skinheads are not one of them.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“That might not seem like much to some, but when you have nothing, anything seems like a fortune.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“Bay to the west continued to pound the little spit of land. She had departed from Robie feeling both hopeful and lost, such an unsettling feeling that she was unsure from which end to work through it. If there was even a way to do so. For most of her”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“or her job.”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“phone. He”
― David Baldacci, The Target

“presidents had to make”
― David Baldacci, The Target