A Wanted Man Quotes

“Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“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, A Wanted Man

“A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“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, A Wanted Man

“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, A Wanted Man

“Reacher remembered a line from an old song: Set the controls for the heart of the sun.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“an average infantryman records one enemy fatality for every fifteen thousand combat rounds expended.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man:

“And most people stick to underwear from their country of origin.” “Do they?” “As a general rule. It’s a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And an intimacy issue. It’s a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“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.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“At one point they said they were heading to”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“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, A Wanted Man

“Suppose twenty years ago Congress had proposed a law saying every citizen had to wear a radio transponder around his neck, all day and all night, so the government could track him wherever he went. Can you imagine the outrage? But instead the citizens went right ahead and did it to themselves. In their pockets and purses, not around their necks, but the outcome is the same.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Does this thing have fast forward?” Sorenson asked. “Hold down the shift key,” the kid said.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Take any three consecutive numbers, the largest divisible by three, and add them up, and then add the digits of the result, again and again if necessary, until just a single number is left. That number will be six.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Affair”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“little over seven hundred miles.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Delfuenso smiled, just briefly. “I’m living the dream,” she said. “I just shot a couple of crooked bankers.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Dealing with morons was. What was the phrase? Like teaching Hindu to a beagle.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Thirtieth out of fifty in population, twenty-sixth out of fifty in land area, but Iowa had a quarter of America’s best-grade topsoil all to itself, and therefore it was at the head of the list when it came to corn and soybeans and hogs and cattle.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Tell me how you talk for a minute without using the letter A.” Delfuenso said, “You were asleep.” McQueen said, “I haven’t slept for seven months.” Reacher said, “Easy. Just start counting. One, two, three, four, five, six. And so on. You don’t hit a letter A until you get to a hundred and one. You can even do it real fast and still get nowhere near ninety-nine inside a minute.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Some old guy once said the meaning of life is that it ends. Which was inescapably true. No one lives forever.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Easy. Just start counting. One, two, three, four, five, six. And so on. You don’t hit a letter A until you get to a hundred and one. You can even do it real fast and still get nowhere near ninety-nine inside a minute.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“Tell me how you talk for a minute without using the letter A.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“change.’ ‘They all”
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“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, A Wanted Man

“bar.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man:

“Sorenson said, “Yes, he was. I’ve seen his file. He was decorated six times. Silver Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Soldier’s Medal, Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart.” “We all got medals,”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“President Harry S Truman’s hometown. Reacher’s favorite president.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“She cleared her throat and”
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