“Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible.”

“Indignation is often the best defense.”

“No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors.”

“For twenty-four hours, she'd been running on her standard triple A's: ambition, adrenaline, and anxiety. Add two gut-wrenching plane rides on less than two hours sleep and her nerves, like her muscles, were screaming. None of this, she knew was visible even to the keenest observer. And she meant to keep it that way.”

“Guys willing to hold your dick are a dime a dozen; save your hearts for the one who wants to hold your hand.”

“We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.”

“I was in a kind of no-man's-land, a place between places. The mind plays all sorts of tricks, gets up to all kinds of things while we ourselves are slumbering in a white zone that looks for all the world like inattention to the onlooker.”