Quotes from Michael Connelly

Christian Scott.

Dirty four. It's what some geneticists call the DRD4 gene.

Those five words…"the good of the department." They never added up to anything but high jingo.

I nodded and made a notation on my legal pad. It read Got you, motherfucker.

Little pieces of grace were everywhere if you looked.

reached out and yanked on it. The string

until after we publish.

Fear, though always unspoken, nevertheless stripped men of their carefully orchestrated poses. The adrenaline roars and the throat gurgles with fear like a backed-up drain. Sheer desire for survival takes over. It sharpens the mind, pares away all the bullshit.

REACT is a BAM squad, Bosch. By Any Means. There are no rules with these guys.

Are you okay?" he asked. "I'm fine, yeah," she said. She wiped tears off her cheeks. "Somebody who totally fucked me over died today," she said. "Then why are you sad?" he asked. "I mean, fuck him. If it was a him." "I don't know. I guess because it means what he did can never be changed. His death makes it permanent." "I think I get that.

New York Times bestsellers The Wrong Side of Goodbye and The Crossing. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than

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stopped at his partner's desk. Soto's

I'm not speaking to hear myself talk, Mr. Cronyn. I told you to be quiet. One more interruption and I will have you silenced.

has become strong over the past four years. He thinks he is invincible. It is a common trait in the disassembling phase of a psychopath. A state of confidence and invulnerability rises as, in actuality, the psychopath is making more and more mistakes. Disassembling. Becoming vulnerable to discovery." "So because he has gotten away with his actions for four years, he thinks he is clear and is so untouchable

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

Medical Center for assessment and

I found out who I was.

the future sparkled in front of them like an ocean.

But once things moved into the courthouse, they took on a different shape. Lawyers argued over interpretations and theories and procedures. Nothing seemed to move in a straight line. Justice became a labyrinth.

I am still angry, Detective Bosch

It seemed like the most important things in life were the easiest to break apart.

Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It could only hold its mystique in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes up and the intrigue is gone, replaced by a sense of hidden danger. It was a place of takers and users, of broken sidewalks and dreams. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.

Okay, well a following sea is the one you have to watch out for. It's the one that comes up behind a vessel. You don't see it coming.