Bad Luck and Trouble Quotes

“Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“You do not mess with the special investigators.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“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, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Time to shit or get off the pot.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“We investigate, we prepare, we execute. We find them, we take them down, and then we piss on their ancestors’ graves.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“You tell a lot of lies, Ms. Berenson,” he said. Berenson said nothing. Neagley said, “She’s Human Resources. It’s what they do.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Facts were to be faced, not fought.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Hence 8197. He liked 97 because it was the largest two-digit prime number, and he loved 81 because it was absolutely the only number out of all the literally infinite possibilities whose square root was also the sum of its digits. Square root of eighty-one was nine, and eight and one made nine. No other nontrivial number in the cosmos had that kind of sweet symmetry. Perfect.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Especially about how hard it was for ex-military people. They entered the civilian world with all the wrong assumptions. They expected the same kind of certainties they had known before. The straightforwardness, the transparency, the honesty, the shared sacrifice.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Handguns were in-room weapons. Under expert control in high-pressure situations the average range for a successful engagement was about eleven feet.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“second rule, learned from a lifetime of bad luck and trouble: Maintain a little dignity.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“So like I said, what are you running from?” “From being like people, I guess.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“a yard and left, Dave,” he said. O’Donnell was like a blind man. His eyes were tight on the two guys”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Tony Swan, Jorge Sanchez, Calvin Franz, Frances Neagley, Stanley Lowrey, Manuel Orozco, David O’Donnell, and Karla Dixon.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“in LA she would hole up. Back in the day it had been part of his job to find people, and he had been pretty good at it. Success depended on”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“in search of a pay phone.   He found a phone inside the bus depot. He dialed his bank’s number from memory. Nine-forty in the West, twelve-forty in the East. Lunch time in Virginia, but someone should be there.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“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, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Hope for the best.’ ‘But plan for the worst.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck And Trouble

“The unit had organized itself like a small-market baseball team enjoying an unlikely pennant run: talented journeymen working together, no stars, no egos, mutually supportive, and above all ruthlessly and relentlessly effective.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Alaska Airlines would have been cheaper, but Reacher hated Alaska Airlines. They put a scripture card on their meal trays. Ruined his appetite.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“You made a bad mistake. You messed with the wrong people. Now it’s time to pay.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“The dragon lady at New Age lied to us. People take notes. They doodle. They work better with pencil and paper. There are no completely paperless environments.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“But the M16 was perfected eventually. Little Wing will be, too. And it will be worth waiting for. You know which is the world’s best-protected airplane?” Dixon said, “Air Force One, probably. Politicians’ asses always come first.” Bond said, “Little Wing could take it out without breaking a sweat.” “Bring it on,” O’Donnell said. “Easier than voting.” “You should read the Patriot Act. You could be arrested for even thinking that.” “Jails aren’t big enough,” O’Donnell said.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“What do you think?” he asked. O’Donnell said, “Find a mirror.” “Doesn’t matter what I see in a mirror. You’re the one laughing at how I look.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Can we see his computer, then?” Neagley asked. “I guess you could see it,” Berenson said. “But it won’t do you any good. Someone leaves here, within thirty minutes their desktop hard drive is taken out and destroyed. Smashed. Physically. With hammers. It’s another security rule.” “With hammers?” Reacher said.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Maybe not. But people have been known to conduct private business during office hours. People have been known to jot down notes about things from their outside lives.” “Not here.” “Why not? You’re all business all the time?” “There are no notes here. No paper at all. No pens or pencils. Basic security. This is a completely paperless environment. Much safer. It’s a rule.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“And third, he hadn’t slept well. The night air had been full of an unpleasant smell. He had run through a mental checklist until he had identified it as dog food.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“The dark-haired forty-year-old calling himself Alan Mason was waiting, too. He was waiting to take a clandestine meeting in his room in the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“pail.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Berenson smiled. “If I told you he used a piece of stone as a paperweight, could you tell me where that piece of stone came from?”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble