She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.