The Secret Quotes

“it can be dangerous to overestimate a person.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“durations. He said, ‘It’s the transmission log. Shows us all the faxes Neilsen sent and received.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“I just kept thinking, what are we going to do with it all?” “We’ll do what we would do if we were investigating any other person for any other crime. Follow the evidence. If it confirms that Stamoran’s guilty, then we take him down.” “But he’s the Secretary of Defense.” “Like I told Sarbotskiy, this is America. The law applies to him the same as everyone else.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“neat, tidy hair like a banker or an accountant. He was wearing a sport coat and staring intently out of the window like he thought if he concentrated hard enough, he could physically transport himself out of there.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“accusations.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“The guard set his foot”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“It’s only a lie if you know what you’re saying isn’t true.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“So they stole one, twenty years old or so, from the parking lot at a Walmart, five miles outside of town.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“He figured how you treat people when they’re alive is what matters.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“easier”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“Reacher worked on the principle that you should eat when you can so that you won’t have to when you can’t.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“And you know the two best words in the English language. Free alcohol. Not to be confused with the worst two words. Alcohol free.” —”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“When she was answered there she introduced herself as a journalism major from Johns Hopkins. She said she was writing a piece on public infrastructure in contrasting urban environments and so she needed to know which firehouses covered certain buildings in the city. She reeled off her list. The National Cathedral. The Dumbarton Oaks Museum. The Library of Congress. The Kennedy Center. And the headquarters of AmeriChem Incorporated. The firehouse they were interested in was set on a triangular lot where two streets met in a V shape. That made for an efficient configuration. It meant the fire trucks and ambulances could drive in one side and out the other without ever having to turn”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“What’s that I hear? Oh. It’s your liver. It thinks you should stick to water.”
― Lee Child, The Secret

“And you know the two best words in the English language. Free alcohol. Not to be confused with the worst two words. Alcohol free.”
― Lee Child, The Secret