Quotes from Lee Goldberg

about superspies and

The corrupt, self-serving prick was trying to distract you from the truth to save his career, remember?

If you go to that unnecessary extreme, it makes a tragic, isolated incident appear to be a major crisis and will spark a press and social media frenzy," Kalb said. "Let's be reasonable, Duncan. I'm sure you can investigate this and keep a low profile at the same time.

Our cleaning lady? Of course not. That would be inappropriate and extremely offensive. Why would I dare to assume she didn't want her baby? The thought never crossed my mind and, frankly, I'm surprised it crossed yours.

Eve knew the area. A lot of undocumented immigrants lived in the many cheap motels and low-end apartments that lined that end of Sepulveda. It was also a hot spot for drugs and prostitution.

Someone ripped a baby from a mother's womb," Eve said. "Getting the monster who did that is worth all of our resources." She'd surprised herself by saying that, more by the vehemence behind it than the words themselves.

Burnside laughed. "Oh please. You wouldn't be in homicide, and we wouldn't be having this conversation, if you didn't play politics and play it well." The prosecutor put her pad back in her briefcase, opened the door, and started to get out of the car, when she had another thought. "By the way, I see Cobie Smulders playing me in the TV series.

men were ruined and families were destroyed by Ronin. She's the only person in the department I don't trust to have my back. Nobody does.

I saw her walking past my house every week. She kept getting bigger and bigger. It was like she was mocking me. It was so unfair. All the people who work here are poor, uneducated, and illegal. The only thing they're good at is cleaning toilets and getting pregnant. Nobody would miss her

Besides, you're taking the lead on this investigation, whatever it turns out to be." "I am? Why?" "Because I'm retiring in a few weeks. My job until then is to sit on my ass, push paper, and offer you pearls of wisdom," he said. "And I don't want to get myself killed like all the soon-to-retire cops in the movies just to add some tragic depth to your character. I've done enough for you already.

She'd always felt an almost parental responsibility to protect and reassure her two siblings and she'd just blown it with Lisa.

also have electricity and running water," Garvey said. "You really are a dinosaur. If you aren't on social media, you might as well be dead.

I exposed the deputies who give favorable treatment to celebrities for drunk driving and wife beating. They hate me, too.

In-N-Out Burger.

Duncan looked at Eve. "I think I'm going to like him." "You're a dog," Eve said. "You love anyone who gives you food." "Woof, woof," Duncan said, then swiveled to face his desk and get to work.

That's how Rihanna started," Ian said. "I have a hard time picturing Rihanna singing 'Hava Nagila.

He wondered if there were cheek exercises he could do to make sure that never happened to his own face.

The only thing more humiliating than a detective who pisses his pants is one who can't be more than five feet away from a toilet for fear he'll shit himself.

Maybe so, but it comes down to this: Do you want the guard to live with the guilt of killing a man? Or do you want to give him a chance to make peace with it?

Hong Kong" means "fragrant harbor" in Chinese. The fragrance is the smell of money.

Ronnie had retired from acting to live off the grid in an underground bunker in the Nevada desert to escape the government, which he fervently believed was listening to his thoughts and planning a global pandemic to usher in a new world order.

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch crime novels. Bosch was an LAPD detective who, over a thirty-year career

I'm too busy for a thing." "A thing is something you should always make time for," Lisa said. "Things can be very relaxing. You could get a battery-operated thing." Eve laughed. "I think the thing we're talking about just changed into a different thing." "It's kind of the same thing.

I'm not going to do that," she said. "With my luck, the deputy that comes will be one of the assholes who did this or, at the very least, someone who sympathizes with them.