- Frances Neagley: [Ordering in restaurant] Pops, Puffs, or Pebbles, in that order of preference. and a chocolate milkshake. Thanks.
- Shane Langston: Don't kill me, and I'll tell you where I was gonna meet Mahmoud.
- Jack Reacher: You assume that's the information I need, Langston, but in an investigation, assumptions kill.
- Omar Karim: [Homeland Security agent] Oh, one more thing. Where's the money?
- Jack Reacher: What money?
- [as he walks off with the bag full of bearer bonds]
- David O'Donnell: What'd the world's scariest Santa Claus put under my tree?
- Jack Reacher: I didn't give you a penny... but I put a shitload in your kids' names. Credit Union around the corner from your house. It'll cover private school tuition, college, trade school, from the looks of it the defense lawyers they'll eventually need. Now you only have to take the sleazy-adjacent jobs you wanna take.
- Frances Neagley: What about you, Big Dog? What'd you get for yourself?
- Jack Reacher: I need a new toothbrush.
- David O'Donnell: You know, Reacher, when I found out you were wandering the Earth with nothing but what you could carry in your pockets... I thought you'd lost your mind. But there's a part of me that thinks you're the only one of us that's got it all figured out.
- Frances Neagley: This is what you bought for yourself? A bus pass?
- Jack Reacher: That's a Trailways pass. I can ride the bus anywhere in the country for a year. That's one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars of freedom, Neagley.
- Karla Dixon: [to Reacher] Come home with me. I really want you to meet my parents.
- [Waits a few while Reacher begins to hyperventilate]
- Karla Dixon: I'm fucking with you.
- [last lines]
- Old Guy: Where you coming from?
- Jack Reacher: Right here.
- Old Guy: Doing what?
- Jack Reacher: Visiting family.
- Old Guy: So, where you headed?
- Jack Reacher: No idea.
- Jack Reacher: Do you have 50 cents?
- Frances Neagley: You have 65 million 3 inches from you.
- Jack Reacher: Jukeboxes don't take bearer bonds.