Quotes from Lee Child

How long was this one up there?' I said. 'Two or three days

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on. I

He was calm. Just another night of business as usual in his long and spectacularly violent life.

We don't have a Plan B.

You're a big girl's blouse

Coyanosa Draw. Now

Reacher let him fall. He landed on the bricks outside the bag shop, one arm right and the other arm wrong, like a swastika. He was breathing. A little bubbly, from the blood in his throat. His nose was badly busted. Cheekbones, too, maybe. Some of his teeth were out. Upper row, mostly. His dentist's kid was going to be just fine for college.

Protein, fiber, carbohydrates. And caffeine. All the essential food groups, except nicotine

screaming at myself to listen to what I'd learned through thirteen hard years. The shorter the time, the cooler you've got to be. If you've only got one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning. Or because you ran out of blood sugar and got sick and dizzy in the small hours of the morning. So I forced the eggs down and drank

because we can handle this stuff better than men, can't we?

loan sharking as the icing on the cake. He had

and the back of his belt, because he was bleeding

French toast, maple syrup, coffee. Protein, fiber, carbohydrates. And caffeine. All the essential food groups, except nicotine

too, first rinsing Khenkin off my coat, which was easy

on the Neanderthals. Then

Did he make it?" "By the skin of his teeth. They medevaced him. The hospital induced a coma before the worst symptoms set in. That saved him a lot of agony. And probably saved his life.

horses faded away. Maybe it had served time as an office. It was impossible to tell. It

OK, Finlay, let's get it done," I said. "I don't have an address because I don't live anywhere. Maybe one day I'll live somewhere and then I'll have an address and I'll send you a picture postcard and you can put it in your damn address book, since you seem so damn concerned about it." Finlay

sentences. A succinct and everyday exchange of information.

People liked him," Froelich said. "He was OK, I guess." "Is that all?" "That's a compliment, one brother to another.

was slow, so we took a chance and got out again back

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.

They looked like a faded billboard for an old-time black and white movie. Some sentimental story. Maybe their mother died young and the old guy raised them all solo. Now they're grateful. Or now for the first time ever a fractured family is seeing eye to eye, because of a terrible external threat. Some kind of dramatic hokum. They were acting it out.

She didn't explain. So knowing that, where would you start?" "I could tell you, but then I'd have to bill you.