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A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17) QUOTES

A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17) QUOTES

1 " Reacher prowled the hallway, his gun stiff-armed way out in front of him, his torso jerking violently left and right from the hips, like a crazy disco dance. The house-storming shuffle. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

2 " Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

3 " Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

4 " Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

5 " As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

6 " Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

7 " A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

8 " It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night."

"How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night."

"No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

9 " At one point they said they were heading to "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

10 " And most people stick to underwear from their country of origin.” “Do they?” “As a general rule. It’s a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And an intimacy issue. It’s a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

11 " an average infantryman records one enemy fatality for every fifteen thousand combat rounds expended. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

12 " Reacher remembered a line from an old song: Set the controls for the heart of the sun. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

13 " Does this thing have fast forward?” Sorenson asked. “Hold down the shift key,” the kid said. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

14 " Suppose twenty years ago Congress had proposed a law saying every citizen had to wear a radio transponder around his neck, all day and all night, so the government could track him wherever he went. Can you imagine the outrage? But instead the citizens went right ahead and did it to themselves. In their pockets and purses, not around their necks, but the outcome is the same. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

15 " Reacher killed the lights and squeezed back through the slit in the plastic. He crossed the empty "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

16 " Iowa had a quarter of America’s best-grade topsoil all to itself, and therefore it was at the head of the list when it came to corn and soybeans and hogs and cattle. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

17 " I bet he burned real well. All that fat? I bet he went up like a lamb chop on a barbecue.” King said nothing. Reacher said, “You would too, probably. You’re not much thinner. Is it a genetic thing? Was your momma fat as well as ugly?” No "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

18 " Sheriff Goodman was dog tired. And he wasn’t sure it was a good idea to take Delfuenso’s daughter out of school for the day. Or for a couple of days, or a week, or a month, or whatever Special Agent Sorenson might have in mind. His attitude was the opposite. He felt work and structure and familiarity were useful crutches in stressful times. He encouraged his own people to come in as normal no matter what had happened. Bereavement, divorce, illness in the family, whatever. In his experience routine helped people cope. Obviously he had to go through the compassionate motions, telling people to take all the time they needed, stuff like that, but he always added that no one would think less of them if they stuck to their tasks. And most of them seemed grateful for it. Most of them worked on as usual, and they seemed to benefit in the long term. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

19 " I’m wide open to ideas, Agent "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

20 " Reacher said, ‘Do you have an accurate headcount?’
McQueen said, ‘Twenty-four tonight, not including me.’
‘Six left, then.’
‘Is that all? Jesus.’
‘I’ve been here at least twenty minutes. "

― Lee Child , A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)