“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.”
― Lee Child, quote from One Shot
“I went to college. West Point is technically a college.”
― Lee Child, quote from One Shot
“you know much about head injuries?'
'only the ones I cause”
― Lee Child, quote from One Shot
“It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it,”
― Lee Child, quote from One Shot
“down somewhere after getting rid of the”
― Lee Child, quote from One Shot
“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,”
― Lee Child, quote from One Shot
“They were doped up? Then you were lucky.”
Reacher shook his head. “You want to fight with me, your best choice would be aspirin.”
― Lee Child, quote from One Shot
“We’ll find you,’ Emerson said. ‘You won’t,’ Reacher said. ‘Nobody ever has before.’ Then”
― Lee Child, quote from One Shot
Lee Child
Born place: The United Kingdom
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“She knew it was weird that she'd reached out to him the way she had. But she also knew that there were a lot of people in the world who regretted never doing the things they felt were right because they were afraid of seeming strange or crazy. Lisa wouldn't settle for that sort of mediocre existence, one bound by invisible social cues. And she had a good feeling that someone like Solomon Reed would appreciate that.”
― John Corey Whaley, quote from Highly Illogical Behavior
“It’s funny how your mind will create an image of a person and how wrong your mind almost always is.”
― A.R. Torre, quote from The Girl in 6E
“Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.”
― Chris Hedges, quote from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
“Las personas que creen que lo saben todo nunca han buscado ni se han encontrado con los lindes entre lo conocido y lo desconocido en el cosmos. Y”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, quote from Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Walt Whitman, quote from Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
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