No Middle Name Quotes

“My name is Jack Reacher, and once I was a military cop, with heavy emphasis on the past tense. I have been out nearly as long as I was in. But old habits die hard. I had stepped into the bar the same way I always step anywhere, which is carefully.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don’t make an exhibition of yourself.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“War is not about dying for your country. It’s about making the other guy die for his.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“zigzag metal springs close to”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“the coffee was burnt and stewed.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“Where’s your luggage?” “I don’t use any.” “You have no stuff?” “I saw a little book in a store at the airport. Apparently we’re supposed to get rid of whatever doesn’t bring us joy.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“Reacher defaulted to his instinctive position, which was to hope for the best, but plan for the worst.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“Surprise was always good. Delay was always fatal. Guys who let a situation unfold in its own good time were just stockpiling problems for themselves.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“Without breaking stride Reacher head-butted him full in the face. Left, right, bang. A perfect ten, for style and content, and power and precision.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“Old Laurent Moutier was gone, at the age of ninety, taking with him like everyone does a lifetime of unknown private hopes and dreams and fears and experiences, and leaving behind him like most people do a thin trace of himself in his living descendants”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don’t make an exhibition”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“Every island he had ever been on had a garbage problem.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“But”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“I was in the 110th MP,” Reacher said. “I’m not scared of PTSD. PTSD is scared of me.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“Women have to work twice as hard, to get half the credit.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.” And”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“all talking in a tense and agitated fashion, like a scene in a movie where folks find out the mining company has poisoned their water.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name

“Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?’ Back”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

“Aaron stared down at his pad of paper, unsure. He said, “So what would be the best word for you? Vagrant?” Reacher said, “Itinerant. Distributed. Transient. Episodic.”
― Lee Child, No Middle Name