463 Quotes by Lee Child

I know I’m smarter than an armadillo.

They were all in line, single file, like an armada from hell. It was a magnificent sight.

The plane turned onto the runway, amid noisy billows of dry brown air, and it accelerated slowly, complacently, as if fully aware the mysteries of flight had been worked out long ago, and it lifted off calmly, and glinted in the sun, and sideslipped in the haze, and curved upward on trails of soot, setting a dark but graceful course north and east.

Either it was general reconnaissance ahead of a further incursion at a future date, in which case it had likely involved cameras and thermal imaging and ground-penetrating radar, or it was the actual search for Keever itself, which they had long predicted would include the air, in which case it would involve pretty much the same technology, but it would find nothing either, because of the hogs.

I’m opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it’s plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

She closed her eyes and opened them a moment later, like she was erasing the conversation from her memory.

SAWs were not metal things with little teeth, good for cutting wood. SAWs were Squad Automatic Weapons, which were fearsome fully-automatic machine guns, with fearsome capacities and fearsome capabilities.

Joe stared at him. “You let her do that?” Lamonnier shrugged. An expressive, Gallic shrug, just like my mother’s.

Full of thrills and tension – but smart and human too.