Quotes from Michael Connelly

because you don't. You couldn't possibly see things the way I do. The answer is no, no insurance. Like most everybody else, I was living in denial. Isn't that what you people call

play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you

He took the 101 out to the Valley and then the 405 north to the 118 and west. He got off in Chatsworth and drove into the rocky bluffs at the top corner of the Valley.

The coyote howled once more. Bosch thought he could hear a dog answering somewhere in the distance. "Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes." "Yes

What's your point, Legal?" "The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don't need to add to them.

I think, young man, that you only run into a person that is a perfect fit once in your life. When you find the one that you think fits, then grab on for dear life.

you find the one that you think fits, then grab on for dear life. Bosch didn't know if she was the one, but for the moment he held on with everything he had left.

we hit the tunnel that marks the end of the freeway and dumps out onto the Pacific Coast Highway. I cracked the window open. I always loved the feeling I got when I'd swing out of the tunnel and see and smell the ocean. We followed the PCH as it took us north to Malibu. It was hard for me to go back to the computer when I had the blue Pacific right outside my office window. I finally gave up, lowered the window all the way, and just rode.

Who was that supervisor?" "That was Art Donovan.

dañaba su causa porque estaba dando al enemigo un rostro y aumentando la rabia y la resolución de América.

corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.

The gray had not yet chased all of the brown out of his hair but it was getting close to victory.

Lewis and Clarke. Why hadn't she said

I guess. I don't remember his name but it

arrests in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s but no address and nothing that gave a clue to his current whereabouts.

mejor manera de no tener problemas es no darlos. —Eso es mentira y lo sabe. —No, no lo sé.

made him late to the funeral. He carried

la acercó a la consola. Karch se quedó de pie tras él.

In the morning, Bosch sat on the rear deck of his house and watched the sun come up over the Cahuenga Pass. It burned away the morning fog and bathed the wildflowers on the hillside that had burned the winter before. He watched and smoked and drank coffee until the sound of traffic on the Hollywood Freeway became one uninterrupted hiss from the pass below.

The details made no difference either way to Bosch, because he considered her death a murder. It was a nine-year-old murder, and whoever had taken Daisy had also taken Elizabeth. Never mind that the killer had never met or even seen Elizabeth. He took everything that mattered away from her. He had killed her just as plainly as he had killed her daughter. Two for the price of one.

speaker and shout. 'Mary

story about how a sixteen-year-old kid becomes a stone-cold killer. Hell, getting an innocent

su escalada. Cuando llegó al descampado del aparcamiento no había rastro de Osani ni de su compañero.

The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation. I didn't deal in guilt and innocence, because everybody was guilty. Of something.