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where in the library is Baldacci one good dead Book
Only 5 quotes posted in goodreads as of this morning. More herein: He was fully twenty-five pounds heavier than when he’d gone into prison, but the extra weight was all muscle, grafted onto his arms, shoulders, chest, back, and legs, like…
Westerns where the man got the gal. And detective novels, where the man got the gal and also caught the bad guy. === He was not yet thirty, was never married, and had no children, but one glance in the mirror showed a man who seemed older,…
The DOP probably had amassed a vast collection of statistics that clearly showed why the confluence of parolees and alcohol in close proximity to others drinking likewise was not a good thing. And when you threw in women, and more to the…
But a promissory note signed, with collateral laid against it, was a serious thing, he was finding. While perhaps some would see it as a small issue, the fact was, if debts remained unpaid, whatever followed would genuinely be the collapse…
But a promissory note signed, with collateral laid against it, was a serious thing, he was finding. While perhaps some would see it as a small issue, the fact was, if debts remained unpaid, whatever followed would genuinely be the collapse…
“Do you think life is that simple?” “Life has never struck me as being simple unless you’re determined to make it so.” === “What’d you study in college?” “Mostly the co-eds.” “ ou’re a laugh a minute until you’re not.” === “The Germans…
Fact was, she didn’t want to spend her life in some Podunk town, and I was her ticket out. But we didn’t have a ride, so we borrowed — ” === On the wall above that was a tapestry of a Revolutionary War battle scene hung from an ornately…
I shot a bunch of Germans and Italians. Then I killed some with my grenades, and some with my bayonet when it came down to man-to-man slogging it out. Slit one’s throat with my knife. Killed one man with my bare hands when we both ran out…
“Mr. Archer, there is no more complex relationship in the world than that of a mother and her daughter.” === The truth not only can hurt, but also can have the capacity to destroy. Do you understand that? ” === I’d like the straight dope…
“Don’t try to figure out women, Mr. Shaw. You would just be wasting your time.” “Hell, boy, I know that. I got a wife and a daughter === “That poor woman looked like she just saw a freight train coming right for her.” === She told me she…
She gently touched his damaged face. ”Does it hurt?” “Not compared to being dead, no.” === “I’m, uh, well, to tell the truth, I’m not sure what love really is, Ernestine. If it’s feeling good with someone, liking how they look, and wanting…
“ I would have liked to tell you the truth, but things kept getting in the way. ” === Archer stood there feeling like Joe Louis had just clocked him with a crushing left hook. === Archer trudged on with all his troubling thoughts. He felt…
Do you take anything with your coffee, Mr. Archer?” “Just a cup,” he quipped. === Women are gonna be the death of you, Archer. Fighting a war was a damn sight safer. === “Well, I see the utility in punishing bad folks. It preserves…
… the doctors did not realize that that injury had nicked an artery. Either through some exertion or otherwise on Lieutenant Shaw’s part, the nick turned into a partial tear of the artery. === “A man representing himself, particularly in a…
“Well, unfortunately, between husband and wife, it’s usually one or the other doing the killing.” === I don’t see much logic behind men being the breadwinners and all except it’s just the way it’s always been, and for no good reason.…