Nick Schoch

“Much more interesting was what lay further to the south. The next right off the two-lane after Mule Crossing came three miles later. It was a forest service track into a nature preserve labeled Roosevelt National something. It was right at the bottom of the map. Right on the state line. The third word would be on the first Colorado sheet. Forest, presumably. Teddy Roosevelt, Reacher supposed, not Franklin. The great naturalist, except for when he was shooting things like tigers and elephants. People were complicated.”
― Lee Child, The Midnight Line

“What Bosch had were just parts of the whole. What he needed was the glue that would correctly hold them together. When he had first received his gold shield he had a partner on the robbery table in Van Nuys who told him that facts weren’t the most important part of an investigation, the glue was. He said the glue was made of instinct, imagination, sometimes guesswork and most times just plain luck.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Ice

“Stillness bordering on the comatose was one of the two natural states that suited him. The other was explosive action.”
― Lee Child, In Too Deep

“With Papists here, and these heathens with their stinking tempers, I wouldn’t give an old whore’s crack for our lives.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun, Part 1