Quotes from Lee Child

Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life.

I like paper better than video.

Griezman said, "Not literally, of course. He's obsessed about certain things, that's all. No doubt rooted in racist and xenophobic pathologies, and worsened by irrational fears. But otherwise he's quite normal.

It lined up behind a 747 bound for Tokyo the way a mouse lines up behind an elephant.

squirmed under the pressure. The leader squatted down and sorted through the

He looked tired and preoccupied, and beset by problems, and a little wistful, like a guy more content with the past than the present, but also temporarily happy, because he had been handed a simple problem that could be easily solved.

Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.

front entrance, from about sixty yards on a diagonal

Sorenson said, "Yes, he was. I've seen his file. He was decorated six times. Silver Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart." "We all got medals

16. El caso (The Affair)

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

absolute stillness. The highway was deserted. There was no traffic.

miles away, but it was the first stop. There

The Mexican woman bring you in?" Josh asked. "Mrs. Greer," Reacher said. "Mrs. Greer is Rusty," Billy said. "She didn't bring you in." "Mrs. Carmen Greer," Reacher said. Billy said nothing. The guy called Josh just smiled.

17. Un hombre buscado (A Wanted Man)

Tell me how you talk for a minute without using the letter A." Delfuenso said, "You were asleep." McQueen said, "I haven't slept for seven months." Reacher said, "Easy. Just start counting. One, two, three, four, five, six. And so on. You don't hit a letter A until you get to a hundred and one. You can even do it real fast and still get nowhere near ninety-nine inside a minute.

then the other guys will come out right as well, assuming they've all got two ears and so on, like I said. And bring me a square of tile off the store's floor and one of those smocks

It was very common then. It was a bad time, and a bad area. We found that out, later. Either our guide didn't know, or didn't care. We found out that there were more than twenty people killed on that route in a year. For fun. Some of them in horrible ways. Raoul was lucky, just to be shot. Some of them, their screams could be heard for miles, across the desert, in the darkness. Some of the girls were carried away and never seen again.

completely deserted.

They're coming at it through the name. The big guy is all over town, asking questions." He got a long plastic crackle in exchange, calm, mellifluous, and reassuring. He said, "OK, sure," but he didn't sound sure, and then he hung up the phone.

CD. The Summer of Love. The Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company.

would take at least another hour for

18. Nunca vuelvas atrás

No doubt about it. The guy was huge. Not quite seven feet, but close. Almost to the ceiling. And he was wide. From shoulder to shoulder he looked like four basketballs in a rack in her high school gym. He had fists like Thanksgiving turkeys. He was wearing canvas work pants and a huge black T-shirt. His forearms were battered and sculpted.