Quotes from Lee Child

waitress came by and Reacher ordered his go-to breakfast, which was coffee plus a short stack of pancakes with eggs, bacon, and maple syrup.

They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked.

Chang said, "I don't understand how you drink so much coffee." "Law of gravity," Reacher said. "If you tip it up, it comes right out. You can't help but drink it." "Your heart must be thumping all the time." "Better than the alternative.

The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.

She moved silently over the thick corridor carpet. The hinge side of the door was closest, and the knob side farthest. She ducked under the peephole's field of view and flattened against the wall beyond the door. She reached out and tried the knob backhand. Long training. Always safer. Guns can shoot through doors. She

The west end guy peeled away from his window and started walking. Heading east. Fifteen feet behind Rutherford. Moving with loose, rangy ease. He was clearly having to shorten his stride to avoid overtaking his mark. Ahead of them a woman had stopped at the edge of the sidewalk to tend to a child in a stroller. Beyond her a couple stood, talking. They were dressed for the gym. Just regular folks. Not part of the pattern. Unaware of what was happening.

10. "I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

A dream from the past, unconnected with reality, but absolutely defining the identity of the person involved.

through his side window, down the length of the

baseball. You can swing a heavy bat slow or a light bat fast, and the slow heavy bat gets you a high fly to the warning track, and the light fast bat puts the ball in the bleachers.

then what I know now. Which phrase is used a lot.

I left them there in the office and walked back to the entrance. Pushed the door open and stepped

plant. She said, "OK, time out. Convince

This isn't the Wild West." "You got that right. This is the timid West. We need to roll the clock back.

Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn't easy. It was like trying to wrestle a king-size mattress off a waterbed. So they buried him close to the house.

It was a Ruger Mark II. A sneaky little .22-caliber automatic. Fitted with a fat silencer. It was a gun for a killer who enjoys getting close.

Maybe of not having to say if I had known then what I know now. Which phrase is used a lot.

No, I believe he's in the Dyer VOQ." Which were the Visiting Officers' Quarters, at Fort Dyer.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it." —Lee Child

Too many ifs, Reacher thought. And too few answers.

He liked 97 because it was the largest two-digit prime number, and he loved 81 because it was absolutely the only number out of all the literally infinite possibilities whose square root was also the sum of its digits. Square root of eighty-one was nine, and eight and one made nine. No other nontrivial number in the cosmos had that kind of sweet symmetry. Perfect.

cerebral contusion, contusio cerebri, in fact two, both coup and contre

Further On Up the Road." Bobby Bland

There's a lot of tension right now between Russia and the Ukraine.