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The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22) QUOTES

The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22) QUOTES

1 " Cowboys are the worst. Not much I can do to them that a horse already hasn't. - Reacher "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

2 " The Zip Code is about the size of Chicago. With five people. But hey, welcome to Wyoming. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

3 " I could tell you, but then I’d have to bill you. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

4 " I hate cowboys."
"There's nothing I can do to them a horse has not done "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

5 " She had used a simile, to explain and flatter and apologize all at once. She had written, “You’re like New York City. I love to visit, but I could never live there. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

6 " Her eyes were green, and they were warm and liquid with some kind of deep, dreamy satisfaction. There was sparkle, muted, like winking sunlight on a woodland stream. And bitter amusement. She was mocking him, and herself, and the whole wide world. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

7 " We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

8 " The missing guy got back from the restroom. He stood behind Reacher’s chair, arms spread wide in exaggerated perplexity. As if to say, what the hell is going on here? Who is this guy? Reacher kept one eye on Jimmy Rat, and one on the window alongside him, where he could see a faint ghostly reflection of what was happening behind his shoulder. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

9 " You’re not dressed like a Mormon.” “So you go knock on the door. Just in case. If he’s there, tell him you’re a Mormon who is coincidentally also in the snowplow business, and you want to talk to him about insurance against global warming. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

10 " Reacher turned the knob, and opened the door, and stepped inside. He realized in his mind he was expecting some kind of an elaborate gothic vision, involving shrouded windows and darkness, with maybe a lone candle burning somewhere, and a vague figure talking softly behind a heavy veil. The reality was a bright sun-filled house made of shiny logs the color of wildflower honey. The front door opened directly into the living room. It was small and neat and clean, but mostly empty. Nothing in it but two large armchairs, placed on either side of the fireplace, at comfortable and companionable angles. Rose Sanderson was in the left-hand chair. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

11 " Being dumb wasn’t a capital crime. Wasn’t a crime at all, in fact. Merely a handicap. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

12 " He turned and saw the others come out after him. The not-very-magnificent seven. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

13 " Afterwards she felt bad about the exclamation point. It looked girlish. But it had to. Really she meant for her boss to read her note and order an immediate resumption of surveillance. Just in case Scorpio’s incoming visitor proved significant. A no-brainer, surely. Obviously Jimmy from Wisconsin was lying when he said he didn’t tell the guy anything. That claim wasn’t logical. A guy scary enough to warrant a heads-up voice mail was scary enough to elicit the answer to just about any question he wanted to ask. So obviously the guy was already on his way. Time was therefore of the essence. But her boss claimed all executive authority as his own. Nudging was counterproductive. Hence the giggly deflection, to take the sting away. To make the guy think it was his own idea all along. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

14 " If I lose you can give the cops a description, from my hospital bedside.” “Lose what?” Mackenzie said. “I’m sure all they want to do is talk to us. I’m sure they’ll be aggressive and unpleasant and so on, but I don’t see how it necessarily becomes a fight. Unless we choose to make it one.” “Where do you live?” “Lake Forest, Illinois.” “OK.” “What does that mean?” “This is already a fight. You can tell by the way they’re standing. It’s win or go home. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

15 " wooden visitor chair polished to a high shine by a thousand pairs of pants. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

16 " A little bit, I guess. But for me it’s mostly the eyes. Either there’s someone home or there isn’t. Either you want to knock on that door or you don’t. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

17 " You threatening me now?”
“More like the weather report. A public service. Like a tornado warning. Prepare to take cover. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

18 " — Sanderson walked to her starting position, and Reacher went with her. He wanted to know she was still chewing. Or if not, whether that was a good thing or bad. She was still chewing. Doing OK. He hoped she wasn’t peaking too early. She had the Ruger Standard. The .22. Two rounds in it. It was all she would take. Bramall had the Colt .45. Three rounds in it. Mackenzie had the empty Springfield. Better than nothing. Like the man said, ninety percent of everything was striking a pose. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

19 " Aspen groves blazed like flares on the slopes. Whole copses of hundreds of separate trees, but all joined together underground by a single root. An aspen wood was all one organism. The largest living thing on earth. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)

20 " She didn’t explain. So knowing that, where would you start?” “I could tell you, but then I’d have to bill you. "

― Lee Child , The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)