Top 84 Reacher's Quotes
#1. He was close to Reacher's own height and weight, but slack and swollen, in a shirt as big as a circus tent, above a belt buckled improbably low, under a belly the size of a kettle drum. His face was pale, and his hair was colorless.
Lee Child
#2. Reacher said nothing. We can't fight thirty people. To which Reacher's natural response was: Why the hell not?
Lee Child
#3. to Reacher's desk. It said Gunshot victim previously reported was LTC Caroline C. Crawford. DOA inside POV
Lee Child
#4. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you're a mile away and he's got to run after you in his socks." - Jack Reacher
Lee Child
#5. 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
#6. This gentleman is heading for Mineral County in West Virginia. Near a place called Keyser, not too far from the Maryland line." Which all meant nothing to Reacher, except that West Virginia sounded one step better than regular Virginia.
Lee Child
#7. Chang said, "I don't understand how you drink so much coffee." "Law of gravity," Reacher said. "If you tip it up, it comes right out. You can't help but drink it.
Lee Child
#8. Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.
Lee Child
#9. The officers shook hands, and the sniper gave a millimetric nod, which Reacher returned, equally briefly, which for two alleged snipers was effusive, and for a dogface and a jarhead meeting for the first time was practically like rolling around on the floor in an ecstatic bear hug.
Lee Child
#10. I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
Lee Child
#11. The smart money brings a gun to a knife fight. Reacher brought a hydrogen bomb.
Lee Child
#12. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Lee Child
#13. A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.
Lee Child
#14. hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot
Lee Child
#15. No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
Lee Child
#16. You're a hard man, Reacher," she said. He was quiet in turn. "I think I'm a realistic man," he said. "And a decent enough guy, all told." "You may find normal people don't agree." He nodded. "A lot of you don't," he said.
Lee Child
#17. Reacher said, So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
Lee Child
#18. The guy who was standing said, "We don't want you here." Reacher said, "You're confusing me with someone who gives a shit what you want.
Lee Child
#19. [Reacher] knew people with houses. He had talked to them, with the same kind of detached interest he would talk to a person who kept snakes as pets or entered ballroom dancing competitions.
Lee Child
#20. Reacher liked New York more than most places. He liked the casual indifference of it all and the frantic hustle and the total anonymity.
Lee Child
#21. Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive. -Jack Reacher
M.J. Rose
#22. An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.
Lee Child
#23. We should get a cup of coffee."
Chang said, "I don't understand how you drink so much coffee."
"Law of gravity," Reacher said. "If you tip it up, it comes right out. You can't help but drink it."
"Your heart must be thumping all the time."
"Better than the alternative.
Lee Child
#24. Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man's life change forever.
Lee Child
#25. Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible.
Diane Capri
#26. Reacher prowled the hallway, his gun stiff-armed way out in front of him, his torso jerking violently left and right from the hips, like a crazy disco dance. The house-storming shuffle.
Lee Child
#27. Reacher glanced back. The guy on the right was about to transition from unconscious to concussed. The guy on the left was squirming halfheartedly and pawing at everything between his ribcage and his knees.
Lee Child
#28. I'm not a vagrant. I'm a hobo. Big difference.
Lee Child
#29. I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.
Lee Child
#30. I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.
Lee Child
#31. The guy said, "Hop in the back." He craned around in his seat and batted stray items aside. Reacher opened the door and slid in and used his hip to finish the job. He closed the door and the woman hit the gas and they took off, cruising easy through the last thirty-some miles of America.
Lee Child
#32. The grounds had an iron fence set in a stone knee wall, which was just wide enough for a small person to sit on, and Turner was a small person, and Reacher was used to being uncomfortable.
Lee Child
#33. His shoes were bench-made by a company called Cheaney, from Northampton in England. Smarter buys than Church's, which were basically the same shoes but with a premium tag for the name. The style Reacher had chosen was called Tenterden, which was a brown semi-brogue made of heavy pebbled leather.
Lee Child
#34. 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
#35. Like they were puppets, and the puppeteer had sneezed.
Lee Child
#36. You could have been killed." Reacher nodded. "Many times," he said. "But all long ago. Not today. Not by these guys." "You're crazy." "Or competent.
Lee Child
#37. The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.
Lee Child
#38. I know I'm smarter than an armadillo
Lee Child
#39. Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price
Lee Child
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Spread love and understanding," Reacher said. "Use force if necessary.
Lee Child
#43. Shotguns and children don't mix.
Lee Child
#44. 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
#45. We're your legal advisors.'
Which they weren't, obviously. Reacher knew that. Army lawyers don't travel in pairs and breathe through their mouths.
Lee Child
#46. 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
#47. Law of gravity,' Reacher said. 'If you tip it up,
Lee Child
#48. To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.
Lee Child
#49. Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.
Lee Child
#50. I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.
Lee Child
#51. I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.
Michael Connelly
#52. I went to college. West Point is technically a college.
Lee Child
#53. Reacher said, "Our nearest tanks are a thousand miles from Yemen or Afghanistan, and they take weeks and weeks and thousands of people to move. It would be easier to bring Yemen or Afghanistan to them. Also faster and less obtrusive.
Lee Child
#54. Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
Lee Child
#55. It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she's a fascinating character.
Lee Child
#56. A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
Lee Child
#57. Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
Lee Child
#58. You could try," Reacher said. "But you'd get hurt. You're out of your league. You're up against something you never saw before."
"You have a mighty high opinion of yourself."
Reacher nodded at Neagley. "I'm talking about her. I'm just here to clear up the mess.
Lee Child
#59. 103 and the even more basic 2 and 515. So, 1030. A thousand and thirty. A mistake. Maybe. Or, maybe not a mistake. Reacher took fifty dollars from the machine and dug in his pocket for change and went in
Lee Child
#60. For real? That's kind of creepy." Reacher said, "I know. And I'm real
Lee Child
#61. The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline.
Lee Child
#62. She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84.25)
Markus Zusak
#64. Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.
Lee Child
#65. It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night."
"How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night."
"No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.
Lee Child
#66. Either way Reacher figured he might as well find out. He had no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so detours cost him nothing.
Lee Child
#67. Chang asked, "Was that the showbusiness answer?" Reacher
Lee Child
#68. 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
#69. Reacher said, "What have we missed ?"
Ratcliffe said, "A piece of the puzzle. What do you know about computers ?"
"I saw one once.
Lee Child
#70. 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
#71. Zec back toward the living room. The kettle's whistle died away, like an air raid siren winding down. The house went quiet again. "It's over," Reacher said. "You lost." "It's never over," the Zec replied. Hoarse voice,
Lee Child
#72. Waiting is a skill like anything else.
Lee Child
#73. Now you had one come back, Harley.
Lee Child
#74. The only opponents Reacher truly feared were small whippy guys with fast hands and sharp blades.
Lee Child
#75. I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.
Lee Child
#76. I've been approached by a couple of people who've recognized me from 'Jack Reacher.' It's great ... when the feedback's positive. I don't know if I look forward to the day when I can't go out and get a cup of coffee. I kinda hope that day never happens.
Jai Courtney
#77. OK," Reacher said. "It wasn't a colonel. It was a one-star general.
Lee Child
#78. Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.
Lee Child
#79. The guy offered his left fist. Reacher bumped it with his right, behind DeLong's back. Not the first time his knuckles had touched a Sox fan, but by far the gentlest.
Lee Child
#80. Below the glass would be the weak spot. Plywood, probably, maybe three-eighths thick, painted, retained in the frame by quarter-round moldings. Reacher was wearing shoes he had bought in the London airport two deployments ago, stout British things with welts and toecaps as hard as steel.
Lee Child
#81. Reacher nodded. "For a spell." Then he said: "Plato is a weird name for a Mexican, don't you think? Sounds more like a Brazilian name to me." "No, Yugoslavian," Peterson said. "Like that old dictator." "That was Tito." "I thought he was a South African bishop." "That was Tutu.
Lee Child
#83. If you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.
Lee Child
#84. I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.
Lee Child
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