The Last Mile Quotes

“His jumpsuit was white, and on the back were the letters D and R printed in black. They stood for “death row”. Mars had equated it to a snake’s rattle, warning folks to stay the hell away.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“The prisoners had also turned to look at Mars. Those doing push-ups and pull-ups stopped. They wiped off their hands and moved back against the wall. And waited. Their expressions were clear. Thank God it’s not me. The news had spread fast. Mars might be getting out after nearly being put to death.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“Decker blinked awake and sat up in his bed. He looked around, for a few moments unsure of where he was. Virginia. Quantico. The FBI gig. Right. He got up and padded to the bathroom. After that he walked into the kitchen and looked out the window. It was still well dark. He slid out the coffeepot with the intent to make and drink a pot while he went over case notes. Then he looked down at his massive gut and the slight wheezing apparently caused by merely getting out of bed and taking a leak, and sighed. “Shit,” he muttered.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.'

'What?' said Mars, looking too.

'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.'

'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don’t.” “Great,”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“posting will be at the unemployment office.” “I don’t think”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“Make a reader early, you make one for life.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don’t.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“You give an inch and they take a mile. And little coloreds grow up into big coloreds. And now it’s the homos and the lesbos. And the trans-freaks. You telling me you think this looks like America? Are you?”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“The world hasn’t changed that much. In fact, I see the pendulum swinging back to where it should be. You can see it all over the place. People want to take their country back. Politicians are saying it. Laws are being passed. Hell, Hugh, you see that from where you sit. People don’t want to take this crap anymore. And it’s about damn time. Hell, for future generations of Americans if nothing else.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“The problem is not everyone seems aware of that,” said Decker.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“This is not the 1950s,” replied Pierce. “The problem is not everyone seems aware of that,” said Decker.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“America didn’t have prisons. It had chaos pens where men were transported back seventeen centuries. Where the strong survived until it met something even stronger, and where the weak died every time.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“Einheiten zu planen. Sein Leben war sehr strukturiert, bot”
― David Baldacci, Last Mile

“have put up a bond of five hundred dollars—significant”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“Well, that’s way above my pay grade”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“Time did not heal wounds for him. Not for someone who could never forget. Their murders were as fresh now as when they occurred. Not just the visuals, but also the emotional hatchet attached to the mental images. They would be until the day he died.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“human beings, for better or worse, were undeniably social creatures. Without interaction they went mad.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“He would have been forty-two years old in two months. His forty-first had been his very last birthday, as it turned out.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“lugar,”
― David Baldacci, La última milla

“box. I’m sure of that.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“Montgomery dude said he killed my parents.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“more”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“45 H”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“there?” When”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile

“town.”
― David Baldacci, The Last Mile