Jack Reacher Quotes

“hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot”
― Lee Childs

“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.”
― Lee Child, Persuader

“Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.”
― Lee Child

“I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“Waiting is a skill like anything else.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“Reacher said nothing.”
― Lee Child

“Shotguns and children don't mix.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“Now you had one come back, Harley.”
― Lee Child, Persuader

“In an ambush situation, waiting is what wins the battle. If the other guy is war, he'll come early or late. When he figures you won't be expecting him. So however early he might make it, you've got to be earlier. However late he might leave it, you've got to wait it out. You wait in a kind of trance. You need infinite patience. NO use fretting or worrying. You just wait. Doing nothing, thinking nothing, burning no energy. Then you burst into action. After an hour, five hours, a day, a week. Waiting is a skill like anything else.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.”
― Lee Child

“Details. Evidence gathering. Surveillance. It's the basis of everything. You've got to settle down and watch long enough and hard enough to get what you need.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“He shook with rage. 'Look what you have done, you vandal. You have destroyed everything!'

'What did you expect me to do? Bend over and wait for the broom-handle?”
― Stephen Arnott, Jack Bleacher: a parody

“Gummy was beaten up, strangled, shot and thrown on an ant hill. That's not the action of a lone killer; that's murder by committee. Who else round here has that kind of muscle? The Colonial Dames of America?”
― Stephen Arnott, Jack Bleacher: a parody

“Two buttons had come adrift on her shirt, meaning she was showing more cleavage than was normal for an officer of the law. I don't know if she had children, or planned to, but they would never starve.”
― Stephen Arnott, Jack Bleacher: a parody

“The shorter the time, the cooler you have got to be. If you've got only one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor

“Genre is about retail," Lee said. "Bookstores want to know what shelf to put the book on. But there are really only two types of books. There is the one that makes you miss your stop on the subway. And there is the one that doesn't.”
― Andy Martin, Reacher Said Nothing Lee Child & The Mak

“I remember what it was like to express love and to show care toward others. I remember how liberating it felt to put others before myself. Despite how fresh on my mind those great feelings of sharing and caring for others were, though, I couldn't bring myself to reunite with them.”
― Alex Cage, Carolina Dance: A Fast-Paced Orlando Black Action Thriller (Book 1)

“Hope for the best, plan for the worst”
― Lee Child

“Inside it was cool again. Everything was white and chrome. Lights were fluorescent. It looked like a bank or an insurance office. There was carpet. A desk sergeant stood behind a long reception counter. The way the place looked, he should have said: how may I help you, sir? But he said nothing. He just looked at me. Behind him was a huge open-plan space. A dark-haired woman in uniform was sitting at a wide, low desk. She had been doing paperwork on a keyboard. Now she was looking at me. I stood there, an officer on each elbow. Stevenson was backed up against the reception counter. His shotgun was pointed at me. Baker stood there, looking at me. The desk sergeant and the woman in uniform were looking at me. I looked back at them.”
― Lee Child, Killing Floor