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“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.”
“As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.”
“It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of...”
“I fought to stay awake and keep the car on the road. And I thought back to texts I had read from the British Army in India, during the Raj, at the height of their empire. Young subalterns trapped i...”
“The plane was on descent. Reacher could feel it in his ears. And he could feel abrupt turns. The pilot was military, so he was using the rudder. Civilian pilots avoid using the rudder. Using the ru...”
“I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.”
“I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot...”
“I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.”
“if you cant acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.”
“Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.”
“It’s always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I’m wrong, or I’m right, either you bring us back, or you don’t, either Deputy Chiefs are what they say they are, or they’re not. Always f...”
“if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.”
