Bad Luck And Trouble Quotes
"You do not mess with the special investigators."
"If a military policeman needs urgent assistance from a colleague he calls in a ten-thirty radio code."
"You don’t throw my friends out of helicopters and live to tell the tale."
"Like you said in the first place. You’re playing me like a violin."
"The service was like a family. If you were lucky, that is, and we were."
"Rush hour in LA started thirty years ago. It’ll finish when the oil runs out. Or the oxygen."
"You think he upset someone?" "No, I just wondered whether he ever got around to toning it down. And if not, whether you liked it or not." "I loved it. I loved everything about him. I respect honesty and openness."
"But it won’t actually bring him back." "No, it won’t. I’m very sorry."
"OK." "The kid is called Charlie. A boy." "OK." "Four years old." "OK."
"If I lived anywhere I’d have three or four. We’re going to rent a helicopter and we’re going to throw these guys out one by one in little pieces."
"It’s like a voice from the grave. Like a call."
"You can’t put your hands up for it," O’Donnell said. "You’ll go to jail. If it comes to it, you’ll have to get out of town."
"You’ll regret this," Reacher said. "I’ll make you regret it."
"We investigate, we prepare, we execute. We find them, we take them down, and then we piss on their ancestors’ graves."
"I earn three hundred grand a year and I’m on the breadline. That’s life."
"Take a break," Reacher said. "We’re missing something."
"Stay visible, and call me if you see anyone sniffing around. No more independent action, OK?"
"We’re just here for the funeral," Reacher said.
"Numbers don’t lie, and percentages are numbers."
"Doesn’t it? There was a definite mathematical relationship between what Franz knew and what Sanchez knew."
"We should call before we drive all the way out there."
"I’m still in Colorado. Watch them for me, OK?"
"Mr. Swan left here more than three weeks ago. Isn’t this a matter for the police?"
"People have been known to conduct private business during office hours."
"But the ride through Hollywood itself was picturesque."
"Just curious. The more we know, the luckier we get."
"All that we’ve got that you don’t is suitcases."
"Maybe they even gave them their security contract."
"Customers supplied money, the wheel distributed it straight back to other customers, except for an in-built house percentage as relentless and reliable as a slot machine’s microprocessor."
"Card games were the only casino components where human intelligence could be truly engaged."
"Everybody thinks they’re going to be the one."
"Sounds like you’ve been reading a guide book."
"She’s making me curious. I like to know things."
"We need to talk to his old boss. We need to see if he shared any private concerns before he left."
"It's fine. It has beds. And doors that lock."
"An ordinary voice. A solo office with a window and a closed door."
"They messed with the special investigators and we can’t lay a glove on them."
"Plenty of choice. We can afford to experiment."
"Loans can go bad. Sometimes you just have to write them off. It’s a risk. People move away, they fall out. You can never tell with friends."
"We’re old, we’re slow, and we’re rusty, We’re a million miles from what we used to be."
"I’m in a very bad mood right now. Suck it up. And keep your hands where I can see them."
"It was worth a try, you got to be in it to win it."
"Nothing’s happening here. Nothing? No activity at all."
"Eat when you can, don’t risk running out of energy later."
"But overall he was doing the right thing according to the law, so she shelved her concerns."
"Being a trained professional, Margaret Berenson noticed his absence."
"Berenson was afraid of Lamaison. Always had been."
"By and by Lamaison revealed that Dean was cooperating with a special project, because if he didn’t his daughter would disappear."
"I doubt it," Reacher said. "I read it in a book once. It worked on the page."
"They’re going to think I’m completely psychotic."
""Good enough to gamble ten thousand lives against two?""
"He stayed relaxed until Allen Lamaison called him."
""No," Lamaison said. "That’s not going to happen. We’re going to make a deal.""
""The terms are excellent. Want to hear them?""
""You better be quick. I’m downtown right now."
""Turn around," Lamaison said. "Right now. For Ms. Dixon’s sake."
""Wait," Reacher said. "I’m still thinking about the deal."
""Ask them who they were with before they joined the 110th MP.""
"He clicked off and sat up cross-legged in the dirt. He had his proof-of-life answers. Only problem was, neither one of them was even remotely true."
"They bumped fists in the dark, the old ritual, about as much physical contact as she liked to permit."
"The phones rang six times each and stopped. Silence came back."
"Against a man on foot, the lot felt big. Against a car, it would feel small. Against more than one car it would feel tiny."
"Reacher nodded. 'That’s my guess, too,' he said."
"Any college athlete would have done the sixty yards in six or seven seconds. Neagley would have done it in eight. Reacher took closer to fifteen."
"He pictured cars bouncing over the rough ground, pictured himself trapped in their lights, darting left, darting right, shading his eyes, one car chasing, two cars converging."
"He waited for the night to go dark and quiet again. Then he counted to ten and moved slowly along the Bell’s starboard flank."
"He hated confinement. Claustrophobia was as close as he ever came to fear."
"He waited and grew cold and cramped from sitting still."
"Animal instinct, a million years old and still displayed by dogs and children: If I can’t see them, they can’t see me."
"Reacher said, 'I was trying to decide whether to let them throw you out before I saved Karla. Tough decision. Took some time.'"
"Reacher had rehearsed a speech... But when it came to it he didn’t say much."
"'He made a bad mistake. You messed with the wrong people. Now it’s time to pay.'"