Quotations (15)

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But what exactly? For once in his life Reacher wasn't sure.
Less than a dozen quotes in goodreads this morning. More here: It would be an epic road trip, and one he hadn’t made in years. He was looking forward to it . He didn’t get far. === Laconia, New Hampshire. A name Reacher knew. He had seen…
Reacher hit him in the face, with a straight right, maximum force, crashing and twisting. Like a freight train. The kid’s lights went out immediately. He went slack and gravity took over. Reacher kept his left hand rock solid. All the…
“ How did you hurt your hand ? ” “I punched the garden wall.” “That’s an odd way to put it.” “Can’t really blame the wall.” === 1943 was a serious year. The war was nearly two years old. Everything was rationed or in short supply. Everyone…
He said, “Let him go.” Just three words, but in a tone also learned long ago, with whole extra paragraphs hidden in the dying vowel sound at the end of the phrase, about the inevitable and catastrophic result of attempted resistance. === …
Reacher had been a cop. He knew what it was like. Running here, running there, phones ringing, eat when you can, sleep when you can. === They looked like a faded billboard for an old - time black and white movie. === The street was empty.…
It’s a decoy. They want you to follow it. It’s going to drive around all day at exactly twenty - nine miles an hour. It’s going to signal every turn, and you can bet your ass its tail lights are in working order. Meanwhile the real guy is…
Inside, the pages were numbered, and lined, and faded, and brittle, and covered in neat fountain - pen handwriting, gone watery and pale with age. He asked, “Should I be wearing white cotton gloves?” “No,” the woman said. “That’s a myth.…
When the government started commandeering every kind of basic item for the war effort, including steel and rubber and aluminum, of course, and gasoline, but also all kinds of other things. Such as rat poison. The military needed it all.…
Reacher insisted he feel free to take off without him. Immediately, no warning, at any time at all, for any reason or none, whatever his gut or his instincts told him. “Don’t second - guess it,” Reacher said. “Don’t overthink it. Don’t…
Up ahead the five men stood still. They were shoulder to shoulder, but not quite touching. They looked like a singing group, about to start up with a tune. Like a barbershop quartet, plus one. Maybe an alto, two tenors, a baritone, and a…
“One in a million. But that’s my point. The odds are better than zero. Which is why I want you to check. === Recurve, reflex, self, long, flat, composite, or takedown. Everyone had a favorite and a theory, backed by a little experience and…
Bow hunters like to get within forty feet. Closer if they can. Shooting arrows in a forest is hard. There are always trees in the way. ” === There are nine of them. Between them they can guess everything. ” === I think I’m going to die…
To be sure and certain. Plan B required a lot of both. === It was clear the guy was worried in a particular kind of way. An elemental way. Like a billionaire whose plane crashes on an uninhabited island. Or whose car gets in a fender…
He had a rule. If you did a bad thing, he would make sure you only did it once. Whatever it took. He was a good fighter, and he was brave as a lunatic. ” === “That kid was every kind of bully. He had a grudge against anyone with one brain…