Quotes from Michael Connelly

Past the dam the city spread out in a blanket of a million lights, which shimmered in the cool evening air like floating dreams.

As with many of my young male clients from the south side of the city, prison was an anticipated part of life for McGinley. He grew up knowing he was going. The only questions were when and for how long and whether he would live long enough to make it there.

Darius McGinley had had only one profession since age eleven, drug dealer. He'd had only one true family, a gang.

I felt like he was another one who'd never had a shot at anything but thug life in the first place. He'd never known his father and had dropped out of school in the sixth grade

You're an asshole, you know that, Haller? I nodded and headed back to the door. When I need to be.

Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car.

A man who looks guilty is found guilty.

In his career, he had chased down hundreds of killers and put them in prison. If he was wrong about one, then it would put the lie to everything else. It would cast him adrift.

Donovan stared at the car silently, contemplating it the way a matador looks at the bull he is going to fight.

Anybody who relished the idea of being a juror was blue ink all the way.

twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form

It is an amazing thing to be able to hold everything that is important to you in one arm.

Did you know that this year the Pentagon told all members of the military not to do DNA kits because of the security issues they pose?

It didn't matter what war was fought, coming back home was another battle altogether.

I was simply in love with my daughter and how she viewed her world. The literal way in which she took it all in and took it on. I knew it wouldn't last long and so I treasured every moment I saw and heard of it.

The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling.

more creepy charm than an evangelist.

You sure?" O'Toole asked. "I don't want to shortchange you." "I'm sure." "Okay, then." O'Toole began to walk away again when Bosch stopped him. "What was the other thing? You said a couple

Little Peter's," Soto said.

would have happened if she were here tonight when

the morning before. Bosch thought

Highland Avenue in suburban Philadelphia

habérmela contado a mí primero, porque esto podría hacerte sonar como una especie de chiflado vengativo.

there is an equal and opposite reaction. When you look into the abyss the abyss looks into you. You know, all the clichés. They're clichés because they're true. You don't go into the darkness without it going into you and taking its piece. Bosch