I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
Lee ChildI said nothing. Iโm good at saying nothing. I donโt like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.
Lee ChildHe looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.
Lee ChildI had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.
Lee Child