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“A military policeman deals with military lawbreakers. Those lawbreakers are service guys. Highly trained in weapons, sabotage, unarmed combat. Rangers, Green Berets, marines. Not just killers. Trained killers. Extremely well trained, at huge public expense. So the military policeman is trained even better. Better with weapons. Better unarmed.” (Killing Floor Quotes)
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“A square lot covering four acres was about a hundred and forty yards on a side. Homes on the left and the right of the street put number twenty-five about twelve lots out from town. About a mile, maybe.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“Do it once and do it right and do it quickly”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“Don’t underestimate the attraction of your ass, Roscoe, whatever you do.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“He had crashed through the barrier. He had stopped worrying and started relaxing. He was up on that plateau where you just did whatever needed doing. I knew that place. I lived there.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“Her eyes were like a welcome blast of sunshine on a rotten afternoon.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“I had to decide how to use that pressure. I had to decide whether it was going to crush me or turn me into a diamond.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“I left them there in the office and walked back to the entrance. Pushed the door open and stepped”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“I wanted miles to travel and absolutely no idea where I was going.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I’m going to try it my way.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“I’d lost something I never knew I’d had.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“I’d never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“If you can see a bandwagon, it’s too late to get on.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“I’m not a vagrant. I’m a hobo. Big difference.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“My only problem was making a living. How to make a living without giving up the freedom was not an easy trick.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn’t believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I’d heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.” (Killing Floor Quotes)
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“The other thing I remember from the chemistry lab is stuff about pressure. Pressure turns coal into diamonds. Pressure does things.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“They had come for us in the night. Hey had come expecting a lot of blood. They had come with all their gear. Their rubber overshoes and their nylon bodysuits. Their knives, their hammer, their bag of nails. They had come to do a job on us, like they’d done on Morrison and his wife.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“They taught me that inhibitions would kill me. Hit early, hit hard. Kill with the first blow. Get your retaliation in first. Cheat. The gentlemen who behaved decently weren’t there to train anybody. They were already dead.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“Waiting is a skill like anything else.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“What’s the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where’s the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it’s filled up with old stuff there ain’t no way to get new stuff in. No way at all, you understand? So I don’t remember any new stuff because my old bucket is all filled up with old stuff that happened way back. You understand what I’m saying here?”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
“You need infinite patience. No use fretting or worrying. You just wait. Doing nothing, thinking nothing, burning no energy. Then you burst into action. After an hour, five hours, a day, a week. Waiting is a skill like anything else.”
Lee Child
Killing Floor
