“Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.”

“He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.”

“Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!”

“Don't be sad that roses have thorns.Be glad that thorns have Roses.Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.”

“He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.”

“An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.”

“They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.”