[100자평] The Affair : (Jack Reacher 16)

The Affair : (Jack Reacher 16) (Paperback)
Child, Lee / Bantam / 2012년 8월

드디어 다 읽었다! 거의 세 달에 걸쳐... 번역본을 먼저 읽지 않았다면 나의 영어 실력으로는 디테일을 전혀 이해할 수 없었을 수준이다. 이제 즐길 수 있는 동화책으로 돌아가야지. 리처는 번역본으로 즐기겠습니다.

[오늘의 한문장] The Affair : (Jack Reacher 16)

‘Three women were killed here,‘ I said. ‘And the perpis running around free as a bird.‘
‘We have no jurisdiction.‘
‘Remember that picture in Emmeline McClatchy‘s parlour? Martin Luther King? He said all that needs tohappen for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing.‘
‘I‘m a military cop, not a good man.‘
‘He also said the day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.‘
‘That stuff is way above my pay grade.‘
‘He also said that injustice anywhere is a threat tojustice everywhere.‘
‘What do you want me to do?‘
‘I want you to stay here,‘ I said. ‘One more day.‘
Then I finished my pie and went looking for Eliza-beth Deveraux again. - P437

[오늘의 한문장] The Affair : (Jack Reacher 16)

It was March in Mississippi and there were enough new leaves on the trees to deny me a clear view of thesky. So I navigated by guesswork. Or dead reckoning, assome people prefer to call it. Which is hard to do, in aforest. Most right-handed people end up walking widecounterclockwise circles, because most right-handedpeople have left legs fractionally shorter than their right legs. Basic biology and geometry. I avoided thatparticular peril by stepping to the right of every tenthtree I came to, whether I thought I needed to or not. - P299

She said, ‘I agree. It‘s time to shake something loose.
If you want to know if the stove is hot, sometimes theonly way to find out is to touch it.‘
‘You must have been a pretty good cop.‘
‘I still am a pretty good cop.‘ - P330

[오늘의 한문장] The Affair : (Jack Reacher 16)

‘She won‘t be on file anywhere. Why would she be? She was a kid. She didn‘t serve and she wasn‘t a cop.‘
I said, ‘Nothing ventured, nothing gained.‘ - P234

[오늘의 한문장] The Affair : (Jack Reacher 16)

The door was right in front of me. It was open. I took a breath and stepped into the lobby. Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it. - P18