Book: Jack Reacher, or is It worth dying

Long experience of life in the district taught him that reality is what people think is reality. If no one mentions any event, it didn't happen. If nobody is talking about the man, it did not exist.
Reality was whatever people said it was. If no one ever mentioned an event, then it had never happened. If no one ever mentioned a person, then that person had never existed.

Life or death. It's always the final choice.
Life or death. Always the ultimate choice.

People who spend energy berating yourself for mistakes, because of which they find themselves in a difficult position, always lose.
People who wasted time and energy cursing recent errors were certain losers.

Truces are temporary. Call it a Union. The Union thing is constant.
Truces are temporary. Call it an alliance. That's permanent.

Perception defines reality. In any case, in half of the cases.
Perception was reality, at least half the time.

We are all looking for someone, it's human nature. The eternal search.
We all are looking for someone. That's the very essence of human nature, isn't it? It's an eternal quest.

Obedience without temptation is meaningless.
Obedience without temptation is meaningless.

Better safe than sorry.
Better safe than sorry.

The old-old way which did use fortune teller. Give the other person a lot of times to reply "Yes" or "no" and he will believe that you have something in common. A simple psychological trick based on a prudent approach to the answers, using the likelihood.
An old, old process, exploited by fortune tellers everywhere. Steer a guy through an endless series of yes-no, right-wrong questions, and in no time at all a convincing illusion of intimacy built itself up. A simple psychological trick, sharpened by listening carefully to answers, feeling the way, and playing the odds.

In most towns the main street is given to institutions that bring maximum profit. Well and municipal education such as the police and County offices are located in the following neighborhoods. Or a little further.
In his experience most places reserved on the main drag for profit-and-loss businesses. Municipal enterprises like cops and county offices would be a block or two over. Maybe more.

In chains no defects. Defects occur in horses. And the chain - weak links.
Chains don't have kinks. Horses have kinks. Chains have weak links.

Feelings are different from facts.
Feelings are different than facts.

American business. The aim of the game is to get the best price.
This was American business, after all. Forcing down the wholesale price was the name of the game.

In winter the earth is flat. There is nowhere to hide.
The land is flat here and it's wintertime. There's nowhere to hide.