Quotes from Lee Child

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

He turned back. Emptied the tube of glue into the first guy's palms and crushed them together and counted to ten. Chemical handcuffs

No se le va a escapar. Está muerto. Además, tampoco han encontrado ningún médico forense sobrio de momento.

And they've become even nastier. More ruthless.

They train long and hard to make such eventualities very unlikely, even impossible.

table with the spigot facing toward me. Refills as and when required. Like an alcoholic behind a bar.

About where you are now," she said. "For years you've laughed off the small things, but they come so thick and fast that eventually you realize an avalanche is made up of small things. Snowflakes, right? Things don't get much smaller than that. Suddenly you realize that small things are big things.

every day a woman should do something that scared her.

Sea respetuoso. —De acuerdo. —Sea educado. Fuera del puesto estamos en sus manos. Es una jurisdicción civil. —Los civiles me son familiares. En una ocasión, conocí a uno.

computer paper folded

Aaron stared down at his pad of paper, unsure. He said, "So what would be the best word for you? Vagrant?" Reacher said, "Itinerant. Distributed. Transient. Episodic.

He was a nice person, back when that meant something. But you better not mess with his sense of right and wrong. Underneath he was a bomb waiting to go off. He had it under control. He was a very self-disciplined person. He had a rule. If you did a bad thing, he would make sure you only did it once. Whatever it took.

It's always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I'm wrong, or I'm right, either you bring us back, or you don't, either Deputy Chiefs are what they say they are, or they're not. Always fifty-fifty. One thing or the other is always true.

En el plano estratégico, Gran Bretaña era un portaaviones amarrado de continuo en la costa europea y tenía muchísimo espacio para cubiertas de despegue.

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.