Redemption Quotes

“He got into the car thinking that people were interesting. Sometimes they just couldn’t distinguish the truth from bullshit. Sometimes they didn’t want to. It was often easier just to believe a lie.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“I let circumstances beyond my control define me. That’s not good. That’s worse than lying to yourself. It’s like you’re lying to your soul.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“But if your brain went, you were also gone, though your body lingered and became dependent on someone else to take care of it. And that would be your loved ones’ last impression of you, even though it wasn’t really you, at least not anymore.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“He tried several keys he had taken from her purse until one worked.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“And it was a good thing. Because despite all the unsettling things that his mind had been doing while he was here, the ability to be hugged or have your hand clenched by another without flinching, that simple act, which just about everyone else took for granted, had brought Decker a bit closer to the person he had once been. Before he had died on a football field and woken up as someone else entirely.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“But still, this was his hometown, his home state. He had played for the mighty Buckeyes and then, albeit briefly, the Cleveland Browns. He was a product of the Midwest. He never got too high and never got too low. He looked at the world realistically. He was a jeans and beer kind of guy. He could never fit inside a Ferrari, not that he would ever want to. He always tried to do the right thing. He helped others when they needed it. And he tracked down killers nonstop. And that was pretty much the sum total of Amos Decker.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“ON HIS BED at the Residence Inn, Decker laid out all the construction plans for the American Grill that David Katz had built about fifteen years ago. The plans seemed pretty normal for such a restaurant buildout, but he didn’t recognize the name of the architect set forth on the plans. In fact, the address of the business showed that it was from out of state”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“After all these years, I’m not waiting on the truth one second longer than I have to,” replied Decker.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“help me,”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“Old sins cast long shadows,” murmured”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“We will bury your country without firing a shot or launching one missile. We won’t have to, because you are simply defeating yourself”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“And that’s what they call life, my friend. The good, the bad, and the ugly. But don’t let the last two diminish the first one, ’cause the first one’s the important one. You keep that one alive, man, you can face down anything. That is the gospel truth.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“The number 88. That was the numerical equivalent (the eighth letter of the alphabet being H) of “Heil Hitler.” Then the shamrock and the swastika, taken together, was often the mark of the Aryan Brotherhood. The Blood Drop Cross, which was the primary insignia of the KKK and known by the acronym MIOAK, meaning “mystic insignia of a Klansman.” And the initials KI, which might refer to another hate group, though Decker didn’t recognize them. Still, there were some Decker had had to Google. The Aryan Terror Brigade symbol, and Weiss Macht, which was German for “white power.” The sonnenrad, which was an ancient Indo-European sun-wheel and had been co-opted by the Nazis, who had placed the swastika dead center. Then there were the SS bolts, another Nazi symbol, and the triangular Klan symbol, which looked like three triangles within a triangle, but upon”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“if you don’t grow, you wither,”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“corroborate”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“Decker said, “It doesn’t have to be this”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“hyperthymesia.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“autopilot,”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“So”
― David Baldacci, Redemption

“here.”
― David Baldacci, Redemption