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The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10) QUOTES

The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " You think you've been in deep shit before, and then you realise you have absolutely no conception of how deep shit can really be. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

3 " Do you see anything Wrong with my teeth?"
"Plenty, I'm surprised you can eat. Maybe that's why your're so little "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

4 " He believed that anything could be reverse-engineered. If one human or group of humans put something together, then another human or group of humans could take it apart again. It was a basic principle. All that was required was empathy and thought and imagination. And he liked pressure. He liked deadlines. He liked a short and finite time to crack a problem. He liked a quiet space to work in. And he liked a similar mind to work with. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

5 " I’m not much to talk about. What you see is what you get. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

6 " Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man’s life change forever. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

7 " Reacher liked New York more than most places. He liked the casual indifference of it all and the frantic hustle and the total anonymity. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

8 " Special Forces guys were usually small. They were usually lean, fast, and whippy. Built for endurance and stamina and full of smarts and cunning. Like foxes, not like bears. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

9 " It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

10 " A soldier knows that a satisfactory observation point provides an unobstructed view to the front and adequate security to the flanks and the rear. He knows it provides protection from the elements and concealment of the observers. He knows it offers a reasonable likelihood of undisturbed occupation for the full duration of the operation. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

11 " His shoes were bench-made by a company called Cheaney, from Northampton in England. Smarter buys than Church’s, which were basically the same shoes but with a premium tag for the name. The style Reacher had chosen was called Tenterden, which was a brown semi-brogue made of heavy pebbled leather. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

12 " the only way to keep fear and panic at bay was to concentrate ruthlessly on the job at hand. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

13 " Then the city went silent and took a breath and shiny darkness owned the streets. That was Reacher’s time. He liked to picture the sleeping people stacked twelve, thirty, fifty stories high, often head to head with perfect strangers on opposite sides of thin apartment walls, deep in slumber, unaware of the tall quiet man striding beneath them in the shadows. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

14 " You try that shit and i'll bend you over and i'll use Addison's head to hammer Perez up your ass like a nail "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

15 " shopping trolleys "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

16 " Text messaging,” Pauling said. “What’s that?” “You can send written words by cell phone.” “When did that start?” “Years ago.” “OK,” Reacher said. “Live and learn. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

17 " have gambled and stalled. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

18 " Audibility decays according to the inverse square law. Twice the distance, the sound gets four times as quiet. Four times the distance, sixteen times as quiet. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

19 " No reason to look for complications. You hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras. "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

20 " Do bears shit in the woods? "

― Lee Child , The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)