Quotes from Michael Connelly

He had always known that he would be lost without his job and his badge and his mission. In that moment he came to realize that he could be just as lost with it all. In fact, he could be lost because of it. The very thing he thought he needed the most was the thing that drew the shroud of futility around him.

Rollerboy down and lay down on it

Bosch knew that the possibility of there being fingerprints on the casing were negligible, anyway. The explosion of gases when a bullet was fired almost always vaporized fingerprints on the casing.

I knew, thanks to the notations on the map page, that one side of the triangle—Zzyzx to the airport in Vegas—was 92 miles. That left 236 miles for the remaining two sides. That number could be divided in a variety of ways, putting the missing point of the triangle in a myriad of possible positions on the map. What

In the Catalina crowd he stood out like a garbage man at a wedding.

back from the counter to

She guessed that his joining the cold case squad had fully consumed him to the point where he hadn't had time to listen his music.

She said the problem was he could not drop his guard completely and he knew this was true. Bosch had spent a lifetime alone, but not necessarily lonely.

atlanto-occipital dislocation

achaparrado; llevaba el pelo engominado

investigator. And they were together that

Ron Carter was accompanied by two guitars and playing a Milt Jackson song called "Bags' Groove.

The city shimmered out there like a million dreams, not all of them good.

he knew why, just as he knew that George Irving's death would have been written off as a suicide with Crate

In death, she would be treated the way she had been in life, left alone and forgotten.

for the first time in a long time Ballard thought she might lose her job. And for the first time in a long time she thought that might not be so bad.

It had been Bosch's experience that when you looked back at a life, you used a magnifying glass. Everything was bigger, amplified. A college tryst could become the love of a lifetime in memory.

Like many detectives he preferred to use his own laptop because the computers provided by the department were old and slow and most of them carried more viruses than a Hollywood Boulevard hooker.

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

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

the pale light coming in through the French door leading to the deck I could see who it was. "Milton. What the—" "Shut up, asshole. You surprised to see me? Did you think I was going to let them wash me down the toilet without doing something about it?" "I don't know what you're talking about. Listen, there are

when one reaches the top of a public agency, one becomes a politician, and politicians fall out of favor.

most visible police department.

Mounted on the wall beneath the fish was a brass plate. It said: IF I'D KEPT MY MOUTH SHUT I WOULDN'T BE HERE