Quotes About Lee Child

He was calm. Just another night of business as usual in his long and spectacularly violent life.

OK, Finlay, let's get it done," I said. "I don't have an address because I don't live anywhere. Maybe one day I'll live somewhere and then I'll have an address and I'll send you a picture postcard and you can put it in your damn address book, since you seem so damn concerned about it." Finlay

Chang said, "I don't understand how you drink so much coffee." "Law of gravity," Reacher said. "If you tip it up, it comes right out. You can't help but drink it." "Your heart must be thumping all the time." "Better than the alternative.

I bet he burned real well. All that fat? I bet he went up like a lamb chop on a barbecue." King said nothing. Reacher said, "You would too, probably. You're not much thinner. Is it a genetic thing? Was your momma fat as well as ugly?" No

on the report from the dentist's wife. Milosevic started giving him a hard time about that, like it

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Confidence, maybe," Chang said. "Or overconfidence. He thinks we're dead by now. Maybe he's got nothing else to worry about. He could be the apex predator here. Unchallenged.

The cool factor lies not in setting a mystery on another planet, but in making it the only place your story could have had the same ending.

think they all hooked up in the bar, over aperitifs. Certainly

Maybe Burke was offering tactical advice. Do this, then do that. But Reacher couldn't understand the semaphore. And he felt it would likely be superfluous anyway.

The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline.

I WAS ARRESTED IN ENO'S DINER. AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. I was eating eggs and drinking coffee. A late breakfast, not lunch. I was wet and tired after a long walk in heavy rain. All the way from the highway to the edge of town.

I WAS ARRESTED IN ENO'S DINER. AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. I was eating eggs and drinking coffee. A late breakfast, not lunch. I was wet and tired after a long walk in heavy rain. All the way from the highway to the edge of town. The

A square lot covering four acres was about a hundred and forty yards on a side. Homes on the left and the right of the street put number twenty-five about twelve lots out from town. About a mile, maybe.

In Reacher's experience new Suburbans were driven by uptight assholes. But old models were plain, utilitarian vehicles often driven by plain, utilitarian people.

Reacher sat on the arm, slow and casual, wanting to look like less of a threat, wanting to anchor himself at that end of the room, knowing a standing guy will be told to sit, and often where, whereas a sitting guy was rarely moved.

McGrath clicked the Glock's trigger to release the safety device.

Face it. The pathology meter was twitching.

I left my toothbrush in a glass in the bathroom and Summer came through the door. She brought cold and misty air in with her.

To an underground room, no doubt. It was closed, but like all storm doors it would open outward. So the wind could never blow it in.

Still not enough. You should call for reinforcements. But oh dear, you can't. No cell

I don't understand how you drink so much coffee." "Law of gravity," Reacher said. "If you tip it up, it comes right out. You can't help but drink it.

volume up high and played the recording one

She said the classroom was uncomfortable, because of the desks, which was true, especially for Reacher. He was six feet five and two hundred fifty pounds. He