Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2) QUOTES

2 " I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past. "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

4 " he was keeping track of time. It was nearly two hours since he had last looked at his watch, but he knew what time it was to within about twenty seconds. It was an old skill, born of many long wakeful nights on active service. When you're waiting for something to happen, you close your body down like a beach house in winter and you let your mind lock onto the steady pace of the passing seconds. It's like suspended animation. It saves energy and it lifts the responsibility for your heartbeat away from your unconscious brain and passes it on to some kind of a hidden clock. Makes a huge black space for thinking in. But it keeps you just awake enough to be reach for whatever you need to be ready for. And it means you always know what time it is. "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

6 " The second simultaneous thing Reacher was doing was playing around with a little mental arithmetic. He was multiplying big numbers in his head. He was thirty-seven years and eight months old, just about to the day. Thirty-seven multiplied by three hundred and sixty-five was thirteen thousand five hundred and five. Plus twelve days for twelve leap years was thirteen thousand five hundred and seventeen. Eight months counting from his birthday in October forward to this date in June was two hundred and forty-three days. Total of thirteen thousand seven hundred and sixty days since he was born. Thirteen thousand seven hundred and sixty days, thirteen thousand seven hundred and sixty nights. He was trying to place this particular night somewhere on that endless scale. In terms of how bad it was. Truth was, it wasn’t the best night he had ever passed, but it was a long way from being the worst. A very long way. "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

8 " So he died, because for a split-second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split-second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic. "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

10 " He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational. And "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

12 " He lay and felt the old anger inside him grinding like gears. Cold, implacable anger. Uncontrollable. They had made a mistake. They had changed him from a spectator into an enemy. A bad mistake to make. They had pushed open the forbidden door, not knowing what would come bursting back out at them. "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

14 " with a man. Three children walking stolidly "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

16 " You’re pretty quick for an old guy,” he said. “That’s how I got to be an old guy, "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

18 " just because of her connections. That had nothing to do with it. Holly was Holly. And if layer number three was what McGrath wanted, "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

20 " on the report from the dentist’s wife. Milosevic started giving him a hard time about that, like it "

― Lee Child , Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)