Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

by Lee Child

“You think I’m making advances to you?” “Aren’t you? Wouldn’t you like to?” He shook his head again. “Not while there are dogs on the street,” he said.

Every state puts a lot of effort into the first mile of its highways, to make you feel you’re entering a better place from a worse one. Reacher wondered why they didn’t put the effort into the last mile instead. That way, you’d miss the place you were leaving.

“You know what you really want,” she said. “Everybody always does, instinctively. Any doubt you’re feeling is just noise, trying to bury the truth, because you don’t want to face it.”