Quotes from Lee Child

It was capacious, but almost full.

identified, and

Difference between the men and the boys is the price of their toys?

Smart people, working hard, paying attention, thinking laterally.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, crimes come down to love, hate, or money, and unlike what it says in the bible, the greatest of these is money.

Some old guy once said the meaning of life is that it ends. Which was inescapably true. No one lives forever.

Not their first rodeo.

Colorado, one in East LA. 'Makes sense,' she

You can be gone tomorrow.

It was a solid punch, and a lucky one. But not for him. It crushed his larynx. He went down on the floor again and suffocated. It was reasonably quick. About a minute and a half. There was nothing I could do for him. I'm not a doctor.

People see, but they don't look.

They really didn't want me there. I finally realized. So I didn't fight it. I took an honorable discharge and walked away." "When was this?" "A long time ago." "And you're still walking." "That's too profound." "You sure?" "Deep down I'm very shallow.

average height would want

Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?' Back

We need to make fast decisions here. We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

But this guy was five years too old for that. And behind his greeting he had a proprietorial air. He was saying welcome, for sure, but to my house. Like he owned the place.

A visitor from outer space would assume the viability of the United States depended entirely on the ability of the citizenry to carry eight-by-four sheets of board, safely and in vast quantities.

I chose white underwear and khaki socks and then stopped in the toiletries section and found a kind of half-sized travel toothbrush. I liked it. The business end was nested in a clear plastic case, and it pulled out and reversed and clipped back in, to make it full-length and ready to use. It was obviously designed for a pocket. It would be easy to carry and the bristle part would stay clean. A very neat idea.

to come out from under and get involved

empathy was the key. Understand their motives, their circumstances, their goals, their aims, their fears, their needs. Think like them. See what they see. Be them.

get something out of them.

porc aux pruneaux

I was working on a money-laundering issue. There was a lot of cash and a mazy chain of shell corporations, like always, but I had the guy.

A clock on the wall ticked up to a Cyrillic twelve, the top of the hour, and vodka went down in price by half. Happy hour.