Quotes from Lee Child

Pre-natal care, perinatal care, post-natal care, pediatrics, nutrition, education, orthodontics, vacations, college, postgrad, a fiancé, the whole nine yards. Her assembly line had worked just fine.

Norwich to Ipswich in Suffolk

A guy who was taught the front-sight mantra might focus so hard he could lose his peripheral vision.

He was a man of strong convictions. Some of them were offensive and all of them were erroneous.

Eco ardiente (Echo Burning)

of a clearing in the trees, and maybe a house made of the same

stamped on the gas

Reacher nodded. He had dealt with German cops before. Both military and civilian. Not always easy. Mostly due to different perceptions. Germans thought they had been given a country, and Americans thought they had bought a large military base with servants. There

Sin fallos (Without Fail)

A guy got out. He was young. Early twenties, maybe. Six feet tall. Couple hundred pounds. Maybe more. Most of it fat. He was a big shapeless guy. He looked slow and clumsy.

Reacher always arranged the smallest details in his life so he could move on at a split second's notice. It was an obsessive habit. He owned nothing and carried nothing. Physically he was a big man, but he cast a small shadow and left very little in his wake.

foam on his lip, from a long hard pull on a long-neck bottle. Maybe

7. El inductor

They're looking for nervous or furtive behavior.

Piet Mondrian was his favourite painter of all time, and this exact picture was his favourite work of all time. The title was Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue. Mondrian had painted the original in 1930 and Reacher had seen it in Zurich, Switzerland.

8. El enemigo

But I had with me the greatest conversation-stopper ever made: a pump-action shotgun. At the cost of one unfired shell, I could make the kind of sound that would freeze any three men to any three spots in the world. The most intimidating noise ever heard. Crunch crunch. My ejected shell hit the leaves at my feet and the three guys froze solid.

military cop.

don't really care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

9. Un disparo

He knew from long experience that nobody would try to join him. Nobody ever did. He radiated subliminal stay away signals and sane people obeyed them

ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God's sake don't ask three times.

10. El camino difícil

A child uncertain of its birth date is a classic symptom of dysfunction within a family.