Simply Lies Quotes

“Their dicks were their Achilles’ heels.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“and the bridge seemed to disappear right into the middle of the bay where the road entered the tunnels. It was like the highway was executing a suicidal dive into the water, taking all traffic with it.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“Twenty years ago there were fewer than five hundred billionaires in the world. Now there were nearly three thousand. That was an enormous amount of wealth creation. For a very select few.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“Pottinger.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“Jesus, he hit that three from the parking lot,” he said, obviously watching the TV. “Damn kids these days. NBA’s recruiting out of pre-K. Jump a mile in the air and dunk like it’s nothing.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“And after this is over? Do I retire to that lovely villa in Aix-en-Provence that I saw in the magazine? Or the hilltop estate in Tuscany that was in that foodie show with the adorable Stanley Tucci?”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“serenity”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“a billionaire defendant had argued that his businesses created thousands of jobs and those people paid taxes, that he had very little actual income since most of his billion-dollar fortune was in stocks—which he got loans against to pay for his extravagant lifestyle, effectively bypassing the tax man—and that he gave to charity. When the counsel for the government had pointed out that that was not a defense to paying no tax at all on his actual taxable income, the billionaire hadn’t told him to fuck off. He’d just said, “Wait until we officially make it the law. It won’t be long now.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“It was. But being a parent is an even bigger change in your life, maybe the biggest.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“After a while, the fear is still there, but it’s no longer paralyzing.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“He glanced over at Francine and Doug. “I know some of what happened to you. I know it probably means very little, but I’m sorry. It should never”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“dock. She didn’t know if the cops”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“intimated”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“Feds”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“You got scum everywhere, but you don’t know anybody till you’ve walked in their shoes. And a hungry belly or a sick kid or losing the roof over your head, or being the wrong color and having to live your life with that unfairly hanging over your head every damn day, can make bad things happen to good people, Mick. It doesn’t mean the law won’t be enforced. It just means they’re human beings who you know very little about. You ever lose that bit of truth, go do something else for a living.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“On the phone Clarisse had said that some of the mobster descendants could be men or women. That was the clue Gibson thought she had unwittingly let slip.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“Life was a shell game. The winners could just hide the truth better than everybody else.”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies

“dream. Her old man was proud of her, Gibson knew, though he rarely showed it. Public displays of affection were not in the DNA of the Rogers family. Gibson could count on one hand the number of times her mother had hugged or kissed her. And she could count”
― David Baldacci, Simply Lies