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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4) QUOTES

Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4) QUOTES

1 " The plane was on descent. Reacher could feel it in his ears. And he could feel abrupt turns. The pilot was military, so he was using the rudder. Civilian pilots avoid using the rudder. Using the rudder makes the plane slew, like a car skids. Passengers don't like the feeling. So civilian pilots turn by juicing the engines on one side and backing off on the others. Then the plane comes around smoothly. But military pilots don't care about their passengers' comfort. It's not like they've bought tickets. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

2 " Why's everybody looking at me?" he asked.

"We checked the tape," she said. "You know, the surveillance camera."

"So?"

She wouldn't answer. He reviewed his time in the room. He'd showered twice, walked around some, pulled the drapes, slept, opened the drapes, walked around some more. That was all.

"I didn't do anything," he said.

She smiled again, wider. "No, you didn't."

"So what's the big deal?"

"Well, you know, you don't seem to have brought any pajamas. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

3 " Never forgive, never forget. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

4 " I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

5 " the open! So go for it! Jump on it! Just gobble it right up! “I don’t know,” he said. “We need to talk about it,” she said. But there was no more talking to be done, not then, because the buzzer from the lobby started up an insistent squawk, like somebody was down there on the street leaning on the button. Jodie stood "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

6 " Always love or money. And it can’t be love, because love makes you crazy, and this guy isn’t crazy. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

7 " People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery? All of them? Not guessed them, not dreamed them, but really knew them? What would you do? You would run to the store, is what. You would mark those numbers on the playslip. And you would win. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

8 " I can’t worry about something I can’t change. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

9 " The pilot was military, so he was using the rudder. Civilian pilots avoid using the rudder. Using the rudder makes the plane slew, like a car skids. Passengers don’t like the feeling. So civilian pilots turn by juicing the engines on one side and backing off on the others. Then the plane comes around smoothly. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

10 " The problem with getting your rights abused was that somebody had to witness it for it to mean anything. Somebody had to see it happen. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

11 " Not while there are dogs on the street,” he "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

12 " I want you to swallow your tongue. I want you to just gulp it down, real sudden, like it was an oyster. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

13 " But the big reputation was obviously slow to spread. The spare avant-garde decor made it OK to have only twenty tables in a sixty-by-sixty space, but in four weeks he had never seen more than three of them occupied. Once he had been the only customer during the whole ninety-minute span he spent in the place. Tonight there was just one other couple eating, five tables away. They were sitting face to face across from each other, side-on to him. The guy was medium-sized and sandy. Short sandy hair, fair moustache, light brown suit, brown shoes. The woman was thin and dark, in a skirt and a jacket. There was an imitation leather briefcase resting against the table leg next to her right foot. They were both maybe thirty-five and looked tired and worn and slightly dowdy. They were comfortable enough together, but they weren’t talking much. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

14 " Reacher squinted through the glare. They were all looking at him. The sandy guy, Poulton. The woman, Lamarr. The hypertensive, Blake. All three of them from Serial Crimes down in Quantico. Up here to talk to him. Then Deerfield, the New York Bureau chief, a heavyweight. Then the lean guy, Cozo, from Organized Crime, working on the protection rackets. He glanced slowly left to right, and right to left, and finished up back on Deerfield. Then he nodded. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

15 " Cozo’s guys could let your name slip.” “So?” “They could tell him where you live.” “And that’s supposed to scare me? Look at me, Blake. Get real. There’s maybe ten people on the planet I need to be scared of. Extremely unlikely this guy Petrosian happens to be one of them. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

16 " One hundred and eighty minutes, not a second more, not a second less. Time and tide wait for no man. The Navy was built on all kinds of bullshit like that. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

17 " Dix is a Marine Corps base. We’ll land at McGuire Air Force Base.” Harper looked "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

18 " Mucus drip might do it, or a very mild strep virus. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

19 " You can’t be real-world smart and real-world dumb, all at the same time. You can’t be rational and irrational. You can’t deal with reality and simultaneously not deal with it. "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

20 " lifetime in the service was like rushing down a narrow corridor, eyes fixed firmly to the front. There was all kinds of enticing stuff off to the sides, which you rushed past and ignored. Now he wanted to take the side trips. He wanted a crazy zigzag, any direction he felt like, any old time he wanted. And returning to the same "

― Lee Child , Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)