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No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories QUOTES

No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories QUOTES

1 " But "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

2 " Surprise was always good. Delay was always fatal. Guys who let a situation unfold in its own good time were just stockpiling problems for themselves. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

3 " Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don’t make an exhibition of yourself. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

4 " My name is Jack Reacher, and once I was a military cop, with heavy emphasis on the past tense. I have been out nearly as long as I was in. But old habits die hard. I had stepped into the bar the same way I always step anywhere, which is carefully. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

5 " Where’s your luggage?” “I don’t use any.” “You have no stuff?” “I saw a little book in a store at the airport. Apparently we’re supposed to get rid of whatever doesn’t bring us joy. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

6 " Old Laurent Moutier was gone, at the age of ninety, taking with him like everyone does a lifetime of unknown private hopes and dreams and fears and experiences, and leaving behind him like most people do a thin trace of himself in his living descendants "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

7 " I was in the 110th MP,” Reacher said. “I’m not scared of PTSD. PTSD is scared of me. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

8 " Without breaking stride Reacher head-butted him full in the face. Left, right, bang. A perfect ten, for style and content, and power and precision. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

9 " Every island he had ever been on had a garbage problem. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

10 " Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don’t make an exhibition "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

11 " the coffee was burnt and stewed. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

12 " all talking in a tense and agitated fashion, like a scene in a movie where folks find out the mining company has poisoned their water. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

13 " Reacher defaulted to his instinctive position, which was to hope for the best, but plan for the worst. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

14 " Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?’ Back "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

15 " great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.” And "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

16 " Women have to work twice as hard, to get half the credit. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories

17 " Aaron stared down at his pad of paper, unsure. He said, “So what would be the best word for you? Vagrant?” Reacher said, “Itinerant. Distributed. Transient. Episodic. "

― Lee Child , No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories