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1 " I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me. "
― Lee Child , 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)
2 " Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN! "
― Lee Child
3 " Reacher prowled the hallway, his gun stiff-armed way out in front of him, his torso jerking violently left and right from the hips, like a crazy disco dance. The house-storming shuffle. "
― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
4 " People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be. "
― Lee Child , Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
5 " The first day of the rest of my life. "
― Lee Child , The Affair (Jack Reacher, #16)
6 " He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time. "
― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)
7 " Do it once and do it right and do it quickly "
8 " What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach "
9 " Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive "
10 " Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. "
― Lee Child , Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)
11 " No cop on earth would call his badge a government identification document. Cops don’t work for the government. Not in their minds. They work for their department. For each other. For the whole worldwide brotherhood. For the city, just maybe, at the very best. But not the government. They hate the government. The government is their worst enemy, at every level. National, county, local, no one understands cops and everyone makes their lives more and more miserable with an endless stream of bullshit. A cop wouldn’t use the word. "
― Lee Child , Personal (Jack Reacher, #19)
12 " Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets. "
13 " It’s always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I’m wrong, or I’m right, either you bring us back, or you don’t, either Deputy Chiefs are what they say they are, or they’re not. Always fifty-fifty. One thing or the other is always true. "
― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)
14 " Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price "
15 " They had come for us in the night. Hey had come expecting a lot of blood. They had come with all their gear. Their rubber overshoes and their nylon bodysuits. Their knives, their hammer, their bag of nails. They had come to do a job on us, like they'd done on Morrison and his wife. "
16 " A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward. "
― Lee Child , Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
17 " Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming? "
18 " People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there's nothing much to regret. "
19 " Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into. "
20 " were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of "
― Lee Child , First Thrills
