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The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8) QUOTES

The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8) QUOTES

1 " What don't you need to do?" she asked him. ... "You don't need to solve all the world's problems, Joe. Only some of them. There are enough to go around." ... "You've got the strength of two normal boys," she said. Then came my own personal question.
"What are you going to do with this strength?" she asked me. I didn't answer. I never did. "You're going to do the right thing," she said. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

2 " The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

3 " Everybody has a choice in life. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

4 " This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

5 " Joe was probably the only other human on the planet who liked coffee as much as I did. He started drinking it when he was six. I copied him immediately. I was four. Neither of us has stopped since. The Reacher brothers’ need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

6 " Don’t go anywhere, don’t do anything, don’t call anyone. I guessed talking with the guy would amount to doing something, which would contravene the don’t do anything part of the command. But then, breathing was doing something, technically. So was metabolizing. My hair was growing, my beard was growing, all twenty of my nails were growing, I was losing weight. It was impossible not to do anything. So I decided that component of the order was purely rhetorical. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

7 " We’ve already got gays in the military. We always have had. World War Two, the Western Allies had fourteen million men in uniform. Any kind of reasonable probability says at least a million of them were gay. And we won that war, as I recall, last time I checked with the history books. We won it big time. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

8 " I took my right hand off the wheel and reverse-punched him square between the eyes. It was a good solid smack. It put him right back to sleep. Manual anesthetic. He stayed out all the way back to the post. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

9 " Life,” Joe said. “What a completely weird thing it is. A person lives sixty years, does all kinds of things, knows all kinds of things, feels all kinds of things, and then it’s over. Like it never happened at all.” “We’ll always remember her.” “No, we’ll remember parts of her. The parts she chose to share. The tip of the iceberg. The rest, only she knew about. Therefore the rest already doesn’t exist. As of now. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

10 " Just bought a vintage Pontiac GTO,” he said. “Fine car. I put polished headers on it, big bore pipes. Goes like shit off a shiny shovel.” I said nothing. “You like muscle cars?” “No,” I said. “I like to take the bus.” “That’s not much fun.” “OK, let me put it another way. I’m happy with the size of my penis. I don’t need compensation.” He "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

11 " She closed her eyes and opened them a moment later, like she was erasing the conversation from her memory. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

12 " I felt like a man who wakes alone on a deserted island to find that the rest of the world has stolen away in boats in the night. I felt like I was standing on a shore, watching small receding shapes on the horizon. I felt like I had been speaking English, and now I realized everyone else had been speaking a different language entirely. The world was changing. And I didn’t want it to. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

13 " The Humvee came to a stop right in front of me and I tracked around to the driver’s window. Summer took up station on the passenger side, standing easy. The driver rolled his glass down. Stared out at me. “I’m looking for Major Marshall,” I said. The driver was a captain and his passenger was a captain too. They were both dressed in Nomex tank suits, with balaclavas and Kevlar helmets with built-in headphones. The passenger had sleeve pockets full of pens. He had clipboards strapped to both thighs. They were all covered with notes. Some kind of score sheets. “Marshall’s not here,” the driver said. “So where is he?” “Who’s asking?” “You can read,” I said. I was wearing last night’s BDUs. They had oak leaves on the collar and Reacher on the stencil. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

14 " Civilian notions about unreasonable search and seizure and warrants and probable cause stop at an army post main gate. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

15 " I applied what the unofficial Humvee manual called 2-40 air-conditioning, which meant you opened two windows and drove at forty miles an hour. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

16 " Then we could collate all the possibles and go to work with the holy trinity of detectives everywhere: means, motive, opportunity. Means and opportunity wouldn’t signify much. By definition nobody would be on the possibles list unless they had been proved to have opportunity. And everybody in the army was physically capable of swinging a tire iron or a crowbar against the back of an unsuspecting victim’s head. It was probably a rough equivalent of the most basic entry requirement. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

17 " He was listed as right-handed. The army needed to know that because bolt-action sniper rifles are made for right-handers. Left-handed soldiers don’t usually get assigned as snipers. Pigeonholing starts on day one in the military. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

18 " I know,” I said. “You already don’t respect me because you saw me naked. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

19 " You’re really asking me a different question,” she said. “You’re asking, how can I abandon you? You’re asking, aren’t I concerned with your affairs anymore? Don’t I want to see what happens with your lives? Have I lost interest in you? "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)

20 " I understand,” she said. “Truly, I do. I asked myself the same questions. It’s like walking out of a movie. Being made to walk out of a movie that you’re really enjoying. That’s what worried me about it. I would never know how it turned out. I would never know what happened to you boys in the end, with your lives. I hated that part. But then I realized, obviously I’ll walk out of the movie sooner or later. I mean, nobody lives forever. I’ll never know how it turns out for you. I’ll never know what happens with your lives. Not in the end. Not even under the best of circumstances. I realized that. Then it didn’t seem to matter so much. It will always be an arbitrary date. It will always leave me wanting more. "

― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)