Long Shadows Quotes

“Look at social media. I could post something about saving orphans and I’d be attacked as a sex-trafficking pedophile. People are such animals online.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“I guess all judges get threats and stuff. Hell, these days, who doesn’t? Look at social media. I could post something about saving orphans and I’d be attacked as a sex-trafficking pedophile. People are such animals online.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“full time”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“Everything you said is exactly right, Frederica. And you will carry that with you for the rest of your life, as I will. But if you let it be what leads your life and defines who you are, then your existence on this earth will not be nearly as positive or productive as it could be.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“It goes by so fast. But when your kids are little and the days seem like they are forty-eight hours long, you just can't see that. And everyone with grown kids tells you they grow up in the blink of an eye and will be out of college and on with their lives before you know it. And young parents listen but never really believe it.' She paused. 'Until it happens to them.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“The real way to win a football game comes before you step on the field.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“Because you’re trying to take something away from yourself that was taken away from them without their consent.” “I’ve”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“DC is expensive. Quite a few lawmakers choose to essentially live in their offices, though they tried to ban that, but when do politicians listen to rules?”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“They say time heals, but I’m not sure about that. Not at all.” “Time doesn’t necessarily heal, but it allows perspective, and the fading of the loss. But not for me.” He placed a finger against his head. “I can’t forget. Not even a little bit. Nothing fades, nothing gets better. It’s a new movie release every day, but it’s the same movie.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“We’ve all lost somebody close, Tyler. It’s how we deal with it that counts, because if you mess that up nothing else really matters.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“Kaia”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“Alice”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“She did ask for the name. And I gave it to her. Okay, now I remember. After”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“That was the thing about life. You actually had to spend time living it. Or else what the hell did any of it really matter?”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“We have not one but two killers. And as implausible as it sounds, I don’t think either one knew about the other.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“Decker’s longtime FBI partner, Alex Jamison, had been transferred to New York and found what looked to be love with a Wall Street investment banker. His old boss at the FBI, Ross Bogart, had retired and was learning to play golf—badly, he had heard—in Arizona.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“sort of thing. Think you”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows

“You don’t make widgets for a living. You find justice in this fucked-up world we all live in. You give the dead a voice. You hold guilty people accountable.” “I used to think that. Now I believe I was just chasing something I’ll never catch.” “You never used to believe that. I lost count of the number of times you told me that the only thing that matters is that when someone does something bad, they cannot be allowed to get away with it. Nothing else mattered, you said, if we let that slide. Because that one thing dictates the sort of world we will all live in.”
― David Baldacci, Long Shadows