Quotes from Lee Child

Waiting is a skill like anything else." Jack Reacher

conclusions. First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody.

This gentleman is heading for Mineral County in West Virginia. Near a place called Keyser, not too far from the Maryland line." Which all meant nothing to Reacher, except that West Virginia sounded one step better than regular Virginia.

agent. My testimony would have been automatically suspect, even years later. I would have been a defense counsel's wet dream. As in, Special Agent, please tell us about the bribe you can't prove you didn't take. So I would have joined

Reacher nodded. "For a spell." Then he said: "Plato is a weird name for a Mexican, don't you think? Sounds more like a Brazilian name to me." "No, Yugoslavian," Peterson said. "Like that old dictator." "That was Tito." "I thought he was a South African bishop." "That was Tutu.

After the apology the narrative cut to the then-current chase, which seemed to be equal parts political, legal, and deranged.

Looking at the big things that had shaped the nation. Battlefields, factories, declarations, revolutions. Looking for the small things. Birthplaces, clubs, roads, legends. The big things and the small things which were supposed to represent home. I'd found some of them. I

He went by something an old Army buddy had told him: a good coat is like a good lawyer. It covers your ass.

to Reacher's desk. It said Gunshot victim previously reported was LTC Caroline C. Crawford. DOA inside POV

Ryantown ain't yours.

She looked at her watch. She said, "Why is it when someone says between two hours and four hours it's always nearer four hours than two hours?" "Parkinson's disease," Shorty said. "Work expands to take up as much time as there is." "Law," Patty said. "Not disease. That's when you get the shakes.

The day guy was an aquiline black man about seven feet tall, but slender as a pencil, folded into a desk chair that was far too small for him.

I have no opinion.

Route 66. She headed north and east on it. Reacher started singing to himself, about getting his kicks. Then he stopped. Berenson

Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds.

Looking at it how?" "On my laptop. With Google Earth." "You guys have it easy." "Technology is indeed a wonderful thing. How can I help you?

key. I need to move up into Duke's job. Then I'll be top boy on Beck's side. Then I'll

Law of gravity,' Reacher said. 'If you tip it up

Chang asked, "Was that the showbusiness answer?" Reacher

watching, both

Cemetery than the White House was east.

The fantastic cascade of bullshit coming down from senior officers with nothing better to do.

There were ideas for public relations campaigns. Most of them were pretty limp. These guys hadn't mixed with the public since they took the bus up the Hudson to start their plebe year at the Point.

And I read a book that figured the part about the virgins is a mistranslation. The word is ambiguous. It comes in a passage full of food imagery. Milk and honey. It probably means raisins. Plump, and possibly candied or sugared." "They kill themselves for raisins?" "I'd love to see their faces.