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Killing Floor
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"Killing Floor" Quotes

A former military police officer investigates a brutal murder in a small Georgia town.

Quotes

I was one of those people who was born for the plan B. My whole life has been a plan B.

Lee Child

liferesilience

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Lee Child

hopeplanning

I was thirty-six and he was maybe fifty. He looked like a guy who had been around. A guy who was in no hurry. A guy who was living the life of Riley.

Lee Child

ageexperience

I had learned this for sure: if you get hit enough, you know when to hit back.

Lee Child

resilience

The past was a foreign country. Sometimes I think about it, but I don't want to go back there.

Lee Child

pastmoving forward

I was a happy guy. Happy guys are dangerous. They get away with things.

Lee Child

happinessdanger

I believe in the principle that if you're going to do something, you should do it well.

Lee Child

excellenceprinciples

It was a strange conversation. It was like talking to a man with a different kind of heart, who lived in a different kind of world.

Lee Child

perceptioncommunication

I was doing something I could never have imagined doing, in a place I could never have imagined being.

Lee Child

unexpectedadventure

I was a man who thrived on solitude, but I was a man who also needed to feel like a part of something, even if that something was a dangerous thing.

Lee Child

solitudebelonging