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81 " There were gas pumps. There "
― Lee Child , The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8)
82 " There was a small semicircular plaza at the facility’s main entrance. I could see bright neon signs inside at the food stations. Outside, "
83 " 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. "
84 " . I guess she couldn’t think of anything to say. But the truth was, I was doing OK at that point. Life was unfolding the same way it always had for everyone. Sooner or later you ended up an orphan. There was no escaping it. It had happened that way for a thousand generations. No point in getting all upset about it. "
85 " His signature was big and awkward. He was Bulgarian. I guessed he had grown up with the Cyrillic alphabet and was new to writing with Roman letters. "
86 " OK,” I said. “Forget the whole thing.” “Really?” “Orders are orders,” I said. “The alternative is anarchy and chaos. "
87 " I left my toothbrush in a glass in the bathroom and Summer came through the door. She brought cold and misty air in with her. "
88 " cinder block. In the other three walls. They "
89 " Medics talk about necrosis, and clots, and oxygen starvation, and occluded blood vessels. "
90 " They think know-nothings are good because they’re not invested in the status quo. They think they bring fresh perspectives "
91 " I volunteered,” I said. “I’m trying to make people like me.” “That’s a hopeless task,” he said. "
92 " He smiled and gave me the What can you do? shrug again and picked up his phone. "
93 " It’s a brutal sound. It’s the sound of fear. It speaks of a massive overwhelming advantage in power. And it speaks of remote, impersonal indifference. Tank treads squeal and clatter and the very noise they make tells you they can’t be stopped. It tells you you’re weak and powerless against the machine. Then one track stops and the other keeps on going and the tank wheels around and lurches straight toward you, roaring and squealing. That’s the real twentieth-century sound. "
94 " Then he filled them with coffee from a flask. "
95 " stamped on the gas "
96 " These guys hadn’t mixed with the public since they took the bus up the Hudson to start their plebe year at the Point. "
97 " So Carbone had no closet full of clean and pressed uniforms. There were no serried ranks of undershirts, crisp and laundered, folded ready for use. There were no gleaming boots under his bed. "
98 " absolute stillness. The highway was deserted. There was no traffic. "
99 " She spoke slowly and breathlessly but she was smiling a happy smile. We stepped up and hugged her. She felt cold and frail and insubstantial. She felt like she weighed less than her aluminum walker. "
100 " Vassell and Coomer went back to Germany. This morning. First flight out of Dulles. The staffers here were talking about it. "