Quotes from Lee Child

They looked at Neagley. Dark hair, dark eyes, a tan. A good-looking woman. She smiled at them. Her forearms were on the table. Reacher noticed her nails. They were shiny with clear polish, and neatly filed. Even on the right, which she must have done left-handed. She wouldn't use a nail salon. She couldn't bear her hands to be touched. She looked at one guy, and then the other. The

When your instinct tells you something's wrong, then something's wrong. Always listen to your gut. It's what will save you from getting shoved into the back of some thug's car.

Don't worry about why it went wrong. Just damn well put it right.

To sow discord and division.

They were .50-inch Barrett Model 90s. Nearly four feet long, over twenty-two pounds in weight. Bolt-action repeaters, fired a bullet a full half-inch across.

Reacher defaulted to his instinctive position, which was to hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

ABOUT JOE. Wednesday morning. He'd been dead

Exactly patriotic. My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism." Griezman

The Army changes the rules all the time. Go back fifty years, it's OK to harass blacks, then it's not. It's OK to shoot gook babies, then it's not. A million things like that. Hundreds of men were canned one after the other, for some new invented offense. Truman integrated the Army, nobody started killing the blacks who filed complaints. This

burning with energy, the sort of tireless guy who radiates total confidence.

Reacher said, "Our nearest tanks are a thousand miles from Yemen or Afghanistan, and they take weeks and weeks and thousands of people to move. It would be easier to bring Yemen or Afghanistan to them. Also faster and less obtrusive.

bradawl. It was just a blunt steel spike set into a handle.

Great Dane the size of a pony, and a girl with a rat terrier the size of the Great Dane's head. Overall I preferred the rat terrier. Small dog, big personality. The little guy thought he was boss of the world.

It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of good work for me.

Certain it is that many of his stern deeds were for the right as he understood that right to be.

cutest thing you ever saw. The alleged mother fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch. I

I left my toothbrush in a glass in the bathroom and Summer came through the door. She brought cold and misty air in with her.

To an underground room, no doubt. It was closed, but like all storm doors it would open outward. So the wind could never blow it in.

cinder block. In the other three walls. They

He headed onward and found a living area and looked at a sofa. A big old thing. Three-seater, easy. Plus extravagant curlicued arms. Long enough.

An obscure cousin with no known antecedents. A blank space on the family tree.

Clicked the cocking handle to the fire position and closed her hand around the grip.

If I visit and he doesn't know I've visited, have I really visited at all? It's self-indulgent to come here just to make myself feel like a good wife.

You're pretty quick for an old guy," he said. "That's how I got to be an old guy," McGrath said back.