Echo Burning Quotes

“I know I'm smarter than an armadillo”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.’” Alice”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Short of a shotgun, a pool cue is the best barroom weapon ever invented. Short enough to be handy, long enough to be useful, made out of fine hardwood and nicely weighted with lead.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Reacher smiled. Bad luck and trouble, been my only friends.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Life is endlessly capable of surprises, so he knew one day he would come face to face with his physical equal. With somebody who might worry him. But he looked and saw this wasn’t the day. So he just smiled and looked away again.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“So I got desperate. I was really panicking. Then I got this idea. I figured if I looked at people hitching rides, I might find somebody. One of them might turn out to be the right type of person, and willing to help me. I tried to choose pretty carefully. I only stopped for rough-looking men.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“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, Echo Burning

“Echo was a young girl in love with Narcissus. But he loved himself, not her, so she pined away until just her voice was left.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“No jokes, no banter. No pre-mission”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“For a military cop, walking into a bar is like a batter stepping to the plate.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“They had a choice. They could have been upstanding human beings. But they chose not to be. Then they chose to mess with me, which was the final straw, and they got what they got. So I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“You know who Nicolaus Copernicus is?” “Was,” Walker said. “Some old astronomer. Polish, I think. Proved the earth goes around the sun.” Reacher nodded. “And much more than that, by implication. He asked us all to consider how likely is it that we’re at the absolute center of things? What are the odds? That what we’re seeing is somehow exceptional? The very best or the very worst? It’s an important philosophical point.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“anything. He could end up with seven-to-ten”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“I thought justice ground real slow in Texas.” “Only if you plead not guilty.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Ten bucks a day, just for clothes, made no sense at all until you figured a washing machine cost four hundred and a dryer another three and the basement to put them in implied a house which cost at least a hundred grand to buy and then tens of thousands a year in taxes and maintenance and insurance and associated bullshit. Then ten bucks a day for clothes suddenly made all the sense in the world.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“All he could hear was a small voice inside his head that was saying you were wrong. Completely wrong. It was a voice he had heard before, but that didn’t make it any easier to hear again, because he had built his whole career on hearing it fewer times than the next guy. It was like a box score in his mind, and his average had just taken some serious damage. Which upset him. Not because of vanity. It upset him because he was a professional who was supposed to get things right.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“the meandering approach road. She saw the”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“was full of the smell of soaked earth.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“You need the blanket first,”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“The target heaved her lunch box”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Bad luck and trouble, been my only friends.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Five minutes is all we need.” Eugene shrugged. “Can I see some ID?” he asked. The woman handed over her wallet. It was made of worn black leather and had a milky plastic window on the outside. There was an FBI photo-ID behind it, laminated and embossed and printed with the kind of slightly old-fashioned typeface the federal government might use. Like most people in the United States, Eugene had never seen an FBI ID. He assumed he was looking at his first.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Hence one day in Lubbock,” she said. “And the next day in Pecos,” he said. “And after that?” He smiled. “After that, I have no idea,” he said. “And that’s the way I like it.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“How long were you in Lubbock?” “A day.” “And now you’re moving on.” “That’s the plan.” “To wherever,” she said. “That’s the plan,” he said again. They passed the city limit.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“People think that writing is a lonely, solitary trade. They’re wrong. It’s a team game,”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“Then I’ll lie, I guess.’ ‘Can you?’ ‘I was a cop of sorts for thirteen years. It wouldn’t be a totally radical concept.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“But her arms were thrown up above her head, which some army psychiatrist had once told him was a sign of security. A kid sleeps like that, he had said, deep down it feels safe.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning

“He glanced ahead at the sky. It was tinted bottle-green by the windshield glass, and it was blindingly clear.”
― Lee Child, Echo Burning