Quotes from Lee Child

His usual habit was to click twice. If in doubt, et cetera. Maybe it helped, and it never seemed to hurt. Like shooting someone in the head. A double tap could do no harm.

All the guys Reacher had ever known, fraud, theft, homicide, and treason, right up to the very end believed there was some chance of getting away with it, and therefore something should be salvaged, if possible. No one wanted to start over with nothing.

ideologically

12. Nada que perder (Nothing to Lose)

She changed herself, by deciding it.

Tanana devojka što provejava kroz senke oko bezli?ne ku?e u vojnoj bazi, kao petnaestogodišnjakinja dovoljno žena da bude o?aravaju?a, ali i dovoljno devoj?ica da bude zabranjena.

13. Mañana habrá desaparecido (Gone Tomorrow)

Yard work summed up the whole futile procedure. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later.

Like an AWOL soldier saying goodbye to his

The other thing I remember from the chemistry lab is stuff about pressure. Pressure turns coal into diamonds. Pressure does things.

We're not insured," she said. Then she leaned under the counter and came up with a shotgun. "Not by no insurance company, anyway," she said.

These guys hadn't mixed with the public since they took the bus up the Hudson to start their plebe year at the Point.

breaches of Sharia law, some involving domesticated animals.

14. 61 horas (61 Hours)

He was close to Reacher's own height and weight, but slack and swollen, in a shirt as big as a circus tent, above a belt buckled improbably low, under a belly the size of a kettle drum. His face was pale, and his hair was colorless.

A real coin flipped by a real human trended closer to 51-49 in favor of whichever side was uppermost at the outset.

Women have to work twice as hard, to get half the credit.

15. Razones por las que morir (Worth Dying For)

So Carbone had no closet full of clean and pressed uniforms. There were no serried ranks of undershirts, crisp and laundered, folded ready for use. There were no gleaming boots under his bed.

one of his mother's favorite expressions started to echo in his head: When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Which was the records department of the city offices. Which had a suite number all its own, on a crowded multi-line floor directory, outside a brick-built multi-purpose government building, which because of its age and its shape Reacher figured had once contained a courtroom. Maybe it still did.

London has a quarter of the whole world's supply of closed circuit cameras, all in one city.

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

There was an electric bell push screwed to the counter. It had a thin wire that ran away to a nearby crack, and a handwritten sign that said If Unattended Ring For Service. The message was carefully lettered and protected by many layers of clear tape, applied in strips of generous length, some of which were curled at the corners, and dirty, as if picked at by bored or anxious fingers.