“I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.”

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”

“I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight.”

“I 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.”

“No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.”

“To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.”

“I'm not a vagrant. I'm a hobo. Big difference.”