“I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.”
“I went to college. West Point is technically a college.”
“you know much about head injuries?'
'only the ones I cause”
“It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it,”
“down somewhere after getting rid of the”
“Zec back toward the living room. The kettle’s whistle died away, like an air raid siren winding down. The house went quiet again. “It’s over,” Reacher said. “You lost.” “It’s never over,” the Zec replied. Hoarse voice,”
“They were doped up? Then you were lucky.”
Reacher shook his head. “You want to fight with me, your best choice would be aspirin.”
“We’ll find you,’ Emerson said. ‘You won’t,’ Reacher said. ‘Nobody ever has before.’ Then”
“What kind of meal would you like?"
"Something edible would be a pleasant surprise.”
“Fuck you very much, if you think we’re gonna let you do this on your own, Reichen.”
“Take what you want, and pay for it, the old saying went.”
“There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.”
“I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality”
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