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Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18) QUOTES

Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18) QUOTES

1 " It’s always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I’m wrong, or I’m right, either you bring us back, or you don’t, either Deputy Chiefs are what they say they are, or they’re not. Always fifty-fifty. One thing or the other is always true. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

2 " if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

3 " Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

4 " Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

5 " How much do you work out?"
"I don't," he said. "It's genetic." Which it was. Puberty had brought him many things unbidden, including height and weight and an extreme mesomorph physique, with a six-pack like a cobbled city street, and a chest like a suit of NFL armor, and biceps like basketballs, and subcutaneous fat like a Kleenex tissue. He had never messed with any of it. No diets. No weights. No gym time. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, was his attitude. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

6 " Like they were puppets, and the puppeteer had sneezed. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

7 " Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.” “Who said that?” “Leon Trotsky, I think.” “He was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In Mexico.” “That doesn’t invalidate his overall position. Not in and of itself.” “What was his overall position?” “Solid. He also said, if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk. He was a man of sound instincts. In his private life, I mean. Apart from getting stabbed to death with an ice pick in Mexico, that is. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

8 " We're your legal advisors.'
Which they weren't, obviously. Reacher knew that. Army lawyers don't travel in pairs and breathe through their mouths. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

9 " A person either runs or he fights. It’s a binary choice, and I’m a fighter. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

10 " This is why we need more women officers. For us it’s enough to win. For you, the other guy has to know he lost. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

11 " A lesson learned long ago: the human brain was much more sensitive to side-to-side displacement than front-to-back. An evolutionary quirk, presumably, like most things. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

12 " SAWs were not metal things with little teeth, good for cutting wood. SAWs were Squad Automatic Weapons, which were fearsome fully-automatic machine guns, with fearsome capacities and fearsome capabilities. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

13 " ... Feral, from the Latin adjective ferus, wild, via bestia fear, wild animal. Generally held to mean having escaped from domestication, and having devolved back to a natural state.
Turner said, "It's like you've been sanded down to nothing but yes and no, and you and them, and black and white, and live or die. It makes me wonder, what does that to a person?"
"Life," Reacher said. "Mine, anyway."
"You're like a predator. Cold, and hard. Like this whole thing. You have it all mapped out. The four guys in the car, and their bosses. You're swimming toward them, right now, and there's going to be blood in the water. Yours or theirs, but there's going to be blood. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

14 " He’s worth having. All I got was two fake lawsuits.” “Seems like Morgan’s value just went down, as part of a credible "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

15 " Fatherhood was up there as one of the most commonplace male experiences in all of human history. But to Reacher it had always seemed unlikely. Just purely theoretical. Like winning the Nobel Prize, or playing in the World Series, or being able to sing. Possible in principle, but always likely to pass him by. A destination for other people, but not for him. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

16 " The range had been exceptional. An apartment balcony fourteen hundred yards away had been identified as the rifleman’s hide. Fourteen hundred yards is more than three-quarters of a mile. The French president had been at an open-air podium behind "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

17 " Fatherhood. Always unlikely. Like winning the Nobel Prize, or playing in the World Series. Not for him. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

18 " Hope for the best, plan for the worst. Reacher "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

19 " It had maroon paint and exposed brick and scarred wood, and a chalkboard menu about ninety percent full of things that don’t really belong in coffee, like dairy products of various types and temperatures, and weird nut-based flavorings, and many other assorted pollutants. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

20 " Reacher was led through the door on the left and onward to an interview room. Which had no windows. Just four blank walls, and a table bolted to the floor, with two chairs on one side and one on the other. The room had not been designed by the dining room guy. That was clear. There was no blond wood or carpet. Just scuffed white paint on cinder block, and a cracked concrete floor, and a fluorescent bulb in a wire cage on the ceiling. "

― Lee Child , Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)