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1 " Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. "
― Lee Child , Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)
2 " night "
3 " I know I'm smarter than an armadillo "
4 " Short of a shotgun, a pool cue is the best barroom weapon ever invented. Short enough to be handy, long enough to be useful, made out of fine hardwood and nicely weighted with lead. "
5 " So I got desperate. I was really panicking. Then I got this idea. I figured if I looked at people hitching rides, I might find somebody. One of them might turn out to be the right type of person, and willing to help me. I tried to choose pretty carefully. I only stopped for rough-looking men. "
6 " Reacher smiled. Bad luck and trouble, been my only friends. "
7 " Life is endlessly capable of surprises, so he knew one day he would come face to face with his physical equal. With somebody who might worry him. But he looked and saw this wasn’t the day. So he just smiled and looked away again. "
8 " Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.’” Alice "
9 " No jokes, no banter. No pre-mission "
10 " Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy. "
11 " You’re a hard man, Reacher,” she said. He was quiet in turn. “I think I’m a realistic man,” he said. “And a decent enough guy, all told.” “You may find normal people don’t agree.” He nodded. “A lot of you don’t,” he said. "
12 " Echo was a young girl in love with Narcissus. But he loved himself, not her, so she pined away until just her voice was left. "
13 " the meandering approach road. She saw the "
14 " For a military cop, walking into a bar is like a batter stepping to the plate. "
15 " anything. He could end up with seven-to-ten "
16 " I thought justice ground real slow in Texas.” “Only if you plead not guilty. "
17 " You know who Nicolaus Copernicus is?” “Was,” Walker said. “Some old astronomer. Polish, I think. Proved the earth goes around the sun.” Reacher nodded. “And much more than that, by implication. He asked us all to consider how likely is it that we’re at the absolute center of things? What are the odds? That what we’re seeing is somehow exceptional? The very best or the very worst? It’s an important philosophical point. "
18 " They had a choice. They could have been upstanding human beings. But they chose not to be. Then they chose to mess with me, which was the final straw, and they got what they got. So I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. "
19 " All he could hear was a small voice inside his head that was saying you were wrong. Completely wrong. It was a voice he had heard before, but that didn’t make it any easier to hear again, because he had built his whole career on hearing it fewer times than the next guy. It was like a box score in his mind, and his average had just taken some serious damage. Which upset him. Not because of vanity. It upset him because he was a professional who was supposed to get things right. "
20 " Ten bucks a day, just for clothes, made no sense at all until you figured a washing machine cost four hundred and a dryer another three and the basement to put them in implied a house which cost at least a hundred grand to buy and then tens of thousands a year in taxes and maintenance and insurance and associated bullshit. Then ten bucks a day for clothes suddenly made all the sense in the world. "
