463 Quotes by Lee Child

Fatherhood. Always unlikely. Like winning the Nobel Prize, or playing in the World Series. Not for him.

The most unbearable type of anger is a woman’s – do anything to avoid it.

Psychologists figured that the memory center was located in the left brain, and the imagination engine in the right brain. Therefore people unconsciously glanced to the left when they were remembering things, and to the right when they were making stuff up. When.

Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive.

I know,” I said. “You already don’t respect me because you saw me naked.

A person either runs or he fights. It’s a binary choice, and I’m a fighter.

They approached the motel’s horseshoe from the south, so the first thing they saw was the wing with the office in it. There were three things on the sidewalk under its window. The first was the plastic lawn chair, unoccupied, but still in its overnight position. The second thing was Keever’s battered valise, last seen in room 215, now repacked and waiting, all bulging and forlorn. The third thing was Chang’s own suitcase, zipped up, its handle raised, also repacked and waiting.

Revising objectives is smart because it stops you throwing good money after bad.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she’s telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn’t easy.