The Hard Way Quotes

“You think you've been in deep shit before, and then you realise you have absolutely no conception of how deep shit can really be.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Do you see anything Wrong with my teeth?"
"Plenty, I'm surprised you can eat. Maybe that's why your're so little”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“He believed that anything could be reverse-engineered. If one human or group of humans put something together, then another human or group of humans could take it apart again. It was a basic principle. All that was required was empathy and thought and imagination. And he liked pressure. He liked deadlines. He liked a short and finite time to crack a problem. He liked a quiet space to work in. And he liked a similar mind to work with.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“I’m not much to talk about. What you see is what you get.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man’s life change forever.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“the only way to keep fear and panic at bay was to concentrate ruthlessly on the job at hand.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Reacher liked New York more than most places. He liked the casual indifference of it all and the frantic hustle and the total anonymity.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Special Forces guys were usually small. They were usually lean, fast, and whippy. Built for endurance and stamina and full of smarts and cunning. Like foxes, not like bears.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Then the city went silent and took a breath and shiny darkness owned the streets. That was Reacher’s time. He liked to picture the sleeping people stacked twelve, thirty, fifty stories high, often head to head with perfect strangers on opposite sides of thin apartment walls, deep in slumber, unaware of the tall quiet man striding beneath them in the shadows.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“His shoes were bench-made by a company called Cheaney, from Northampton in England. Smarter buys than Church’s, which were basically the same shoes but with a premium tag for the name. The style Reacher had chosen was called Tenterden, which was a brown semi-brogue made of heavy pebbled leather.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“A soldier knows that a satisfactory observation point provides an unobstructed view to the front and adequate security to the flanks and the rear. He knows it provides protection from the elements and concealment of the observers. He knows it offers a reasonable likelihood of undisturbed occupation for the full duration of the operation.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Why did you quit?” she asked him. He said, “Because they told me I could.” “You were looking to get out?” “No, I was looking to stay in. But as soon as they said that leaving was an option it kind of broke the spell. Made me realize I wasn’t personally essential to their plans. I guess they’d have been happy enough if I stayed, but clearly it wasn’t going to break their hearts if I went.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“He was calm. Just another night of business as usual in his long and spectacularly violent life.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Because all those places have got stuff that we want. There’s oil, and diamonds, and uranium. Alcoa needs tin and bauxite and copper. Halliburton wants to get in there and make a buck. Corporations from Texas want to get in there and run those same damn jails.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“He knew from long experience that nobody would try to join him. Nobody ever did. He radiated subliminal stay away signals and sane people obeyed them”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“You try that shit and i'll bend you over and i'll use Addison's head to hammer Perez up your ass like a nail”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“shopping trolleys”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“No use fretting about what you can’t control.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“He was British, don’t forget,” Reacher said. “Could be Geoffrey with a G. Or Gerald. Or Gareth or Glynn. Or Gervaise or Godfrey or Galahad.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Pauling turned to face the curb square-on. She spread her arms out straight and forty-five degrees apart and held her hands flat and upright like mimed karate chops. Scoped out the view. A forty-five-degree bite out of a circle with a radius of a hundred feet gave her an arc of about seventy-eight feet to look at. More than three standard twenty-foot Greenwich Village storefronts, less than four.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Lauren Pauling’s voice was low and husky, like she had been recovering from laryngitis for the last thirty years. Reacher could have sat and listened to it all day long.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“That question you asked,” Burke said. “What question?” Reacher said. “Who knew Mrs. Lane loved Bloomingdale’s?” “What about it?” “It was a good question,” Burke said. “What’s the answer?” “There’s another question,” Burke said. “Which is?” “Who knew she was heading there that particular morning?” “I’m assuming you all knew,” Reacher said. “Yes, I guess we all did, more or less.” “Therefore it’s not much of a question.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Lane came back awkwardly with a bulging leather bag.”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“PERSONAL Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American, and Reacher is making it personal. MAKE ME Reacher steps off a midnight train in the remote farming town of Mother’s Rest … only to find something dark lurks beneath the town’s idyllic surface. NIGHT SCHOOL A prequel set back in 1996—Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. THE MIDNIGHT LINE Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher. PAST TENSE”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“RUNNING BLIND Two naked women found dead in a bath filled with paint. Both victims of a man just like Reacher. ECHO BURNING In the heat of Texas, Reacher meets a young woman whose husband is in jail. When he is released, he will kill her. WITHOUT FAIL A Washington, D.C., woman asks Reacher for help. Her job? Protecting the vice president. PERSUADER A kidnapping in Boston. A cop dies. Has Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong? THE ENEMY Back in Reacher’s army days, a general is found dead on his watch. ONE SHOT”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Norwich to Ipswich in Suffolk”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Grange Farm and Bishops Pargeter”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way

“Do bears shit in the woods?”
― Lee Child, The Hard Way