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Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24) QUOTES

Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24) QUOTES

1 " So "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

2 " happens "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

3 " No particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

4 " You don’t let an armed man ride behind you unless you know him. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

5 " this before. I don’t see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first. I’m not clear how that works exactly. They started it. They can’t expect me to provide a health plan. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

6 " And it was big enough that organized crime was split two separate ways. The west of the city was run by Ukrainians. The east was run by Albanians. The demarcation line between them was gerrymandered as tight as a congressional district. Nominally it followed Center Street, which ran north to south and divided the city in half, but it zigged and zagged and ducked in and out to include or exclude specific blocks and parts of specific neighborhoods, wherever it was felt historic precedents justified special circumstances. Negotiations had been tense. There had been minor turf wars. There had been some unpleasantness. But eventually an agreement had been reached. The arrangement seemed to work. Each side kept out of the other’s way. For a long time there had been no significant contact between them "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

7 " The guy froze for an imperceptible period, just a blink of time, thinking as fast as he was about to act, and then he swooped down, twisting, his right hand whipping through a long arc, aiming to snatch up the gun and grab it tight and whirl it away to safety. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

8 " The driver was closer, which was good, because he had seemed to be the take-charge guy. The senior figure. He would have the key. In his suit coat pocket, probably. On the left. Because he was right-handed. He would have held his gun in his right and blipped the fob with his left. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

9 " Human nature. The driver had pulled in during what had obviously been an uproar. Yet he had gone right ahead and popped the trunk. Because he was eager. He couldn’t wait. He wanted the praise and the plaudits. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

10 " Each of which was no doubt occupied by a made man with a gun in his pocket and a spare in a drawer. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

11 " Evidently the Albanian guy thought the same way. His right hand snaked into view and gripped the stair rail. No gun. His left hand followed. No gun. But they were big hands. Smooth and hard, broad and discolored, thick blunt fingers, with what looked like a manicure done by a steak mallet. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

12 " Probably clipped a vital component. Larynx, or pharynx, or some other kind of essential structure, made of cartilage and spelled with letters from late in the alphabet. The guy’s eyes were rolled up in his head. His fingers were scrabbling gently against the floor, as if trying to get a grip or a purchase on something. Reacher squatted down and went through his pockets, and took his gun, and his phone, and his wallet, and his car keys. The gun was another Glock 17, not recent vintage, worn, but well maintained. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

13 " Then Barton asked, “Where could we stash him?” “In the trunk of his car,” Reacher said. “He’ll be safe and secure. Maybe not very comfortable, but a crick in the neck is the least of his problems right now.” “He could get out,” Hogan said. “They have a safety device now. A plastic handle that glows in the dark. It pops the trunk from the inside.” “Not in a gangster car,” Reacher said. “I’m sure they removed it. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

14 " Plus paranoid. You can bet they did the exact same things on eighteen and twenty. Which would make their buffer zones virtually impregnable. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

15 " It’s something they teach you in the army. The only thing under your direct control is how hard you work. In other words, if you really, really buckle down today, and you get the intelligence, the planning, and the execution each a hundred percent exactly correct, then you are bound to prevail.” “Sounds empowering.” “It’s the army. What they really mean is, if you fail today, it’s completely your own fault. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

16 " If I wanted easy I would have joined the Marines. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

17 " It’s what we say in the army when we’re going to beat someone to death. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

18 " All in the Cyrillic alphabet. Named for Saint Cyril, who worked on alphabets in the ninth century. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

19 " I don’t see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)

20 " They won’t remember. They had an accident. They got all banged up. Their memories will be missing an hour or two. Retrograde amnesia, they call it. Fairly common, after physical trauma. If they don’t die first, that is. "

― Lee Child , Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)