Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)

by Lee Child

Like saying, I’m so rich and successful it really doesn’t matter to me what I wear? Or would he look like a loser?

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there’s nothing much to regret.

Yard work summed up the whole futile procedure. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later. You curse about it getting too long, and then you worry about it staying too short and you sprinkle expensive water on it all summer, and expensive chemicals all fall.

erudite,

look like a complete angel today.”

sanguine

“Not courageous, because a courageous guy is somebody who feels the fear but conquers it.

Combat is about time and space and opposing forces. Like a huge four-dimensional diagram. First step is misinform the enemy. Let him think your diagram is a completely different shape. You assume all communications are penetrated, and then you use them to spread lies and deceit. You buy yourself an advantage. He

“But I have to say thank you,” she whispered. “Maybe I should say thank you,” he said. “Feels good to know somebody worth taking a bullet for.”