"Büyük bir sorunun bu kadar hızlı ve kolayca çözülmüş olması gerçek olamayacak kadar iyiydi. Ve gerçek olamayacak kadar iyi olan şeyler aslında iyi değillerdi.
Basit bir doğa kanunu."
''Up close, they were impressive enough. As a pair, they certainly looked the part. They were young, some way short of thirty. They were heavy, padded with that dense flesh which isn't quite pure muscle but which works nearly as well.''
Sayfa 12 - Bantam Books, Copyright Lee Child 2000Kitabı okuyor
''The dynamics of the city. The strong terrorize the weak. They keep on at it, like they always have, until they come up against somebody stronger with some arbitrary humane reason for stopping them.''
Sayfa 9 - Bantam Books, Copyright Lee Child 2000Kitabı okuyor
''Life is full of decisions and judgements and guesses, and it gets to the point where you're so accustomed to making them you keep right on making them even when you don't strictly need to.''
Sayfa 2 - Bantam Books, Copyright Lee Child 2000Kitabı okuyor