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Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

Handguns were in-room weapons. Under expert control in high-pressure situations the average range for a successful engagement was about eleven feet.

Revising objectives is smart because it stops you throwing good money after bad.

When you've knocked someone unconscious, put him into the recovery position. If you want him to recover.

If you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

He rolled the bloodied tape into a cylinder

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

problem shared is a problem halved.

second rule, learned from a lifetime of bad luck and trouble: Maintain a little dignity.

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

The day guy was an aquiline black man about seven feet tall, but slender as a pencil, folded into a desk chair that was far too small for him.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

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

Women passengers

Spread love and understanding," Reacher said. "Use force if necessary.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

Shotguns and children don't mix.

Rule two: watch his eyes. If they stayed up, he was going to swing. If they dropped down, he was going to kick.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

I'd lost something I never knew I'd had.

You ever notice how the folks who talk loudest about small government always seem to live in the states with the biggest subsidies?

I can't worry about something I can't change.

He's worth having. All I got was two fake lawsuits." "Seems like Morgan's value just went down, as part of a credible

You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.

We need to triage those six hundred places.

The line between Hope and Despair was exactly that: a line, in the road,

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

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

We're your legal advisors.'
Which they weren't, obviously. Reacher knew that. Army lawyers don't travel in pairs and breathe through their mouths.

This is why we need more women officers. For us it's enough to win. For you, the other guy has to know he lost.

The only way to keep fear and panic at bay was to concentrate ruthlessly on the job at hand.

Like they were puppets, and the puppeteer had sneezed.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

Reacher said, So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

If in doubt, say nothing.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

I don't want to put the world to rights ... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

was a meticulous guy, right?

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

No one talked, but they all said plenty.

The basis of any scam is telling people what they want to hear. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.

People live, and then they die. And as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.

Reacher said Nothing

Tony Swan, Jorge Sanchez, Calvin Franz, Frances Neagley, Stanley Lowrey, Manuel Orozco, David O'Donnell, and Karla Dixon.

Waiting is a skill like anything else.

Like an AWOL soldier saying goodbye to his

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

The first day of the rest of my life.

For real? That's kind of creepy." Reacher said, "I know. And I'm real

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

You tell a lot of lies, Ms. Berenson," he said. Berenson said nothing. Neagley said, "She's Human Resources. It's what they do.

Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired.

you know much about head injuries?'
'only the ones I cause

Dealing with morons ... is like teaching Hindu to a beagle.

Stealthy approaches were hard to make through thigh-high drifts.

once in a pocket, a solid mechanical thrill

Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man's life change forever.

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

... He also said, if you can't acquaint an opponent with tease, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk. He was a man of sound instincts.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns.
Be glad that thorns have Roses.
Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

I had to decide how to use that pressure. I had to decide whether it was going to crush me or turn me into a diamond.

Some kind of internecine conflict, over the spoils.

Although he had read that Pittsburgh was becoming an in-demand moviemaking town.

I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty.

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.

Hackett had plenty of maxillary damage.

Reacher liked New York more than most places. He liked the casual indifference of it all and the frantic hustle and the total anonymity.

hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot

Aim for the side of the skull, which is softer and displaces the brain more.

Her breasts rested on the edge of the table.

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.

Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

Thomas Brant watched them go. He used his cell phone and called his boss, a man named Curtis Mauney.

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

I'm not much to talk about. What you see is what you get.

A yard and left, Dave, he said. O'Donnell was like a blind man. His eyes were tight on the two guys

OK," I said. "Forget the whole thing." "Really?" "Orders are orders," I said. "The alternative is anarchy and chaos.

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

Drivers hit their horns in anticipation of potential fractional delays.

While Roscoe made cups of coffee for Charlie Hubble and Finlay sat in the rosewood office,

We don't teach them to fight fair, and we don't start a fight.

Law of gravity,' Reacher said. 'If you tip it up,

Never hit a woman unless she's trying to kill you.

In order to win, you must be prepared to lose.

Street-fighting's first rule: there are no rules.

Then finally he opened the wrong door, and what came out at him was his problem, not mine.

People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.

If somebody's got money outside of his salary, it shows up somewhere.