Mary

“I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.”
― Lee Child, Die Trying

“You do not mess with the special investigators.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx