Quotes from Michael Connelly

Search warrants designate a specific window of time during which the search must take place. Afterward, police must in a timely manner file a document with the court called a search-warrant return that lists exactly what was seized. It is then the judge's responsibility to review the seizure to make sure that the police acted within the parameters of the warrant.

You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong. I'm strong, Harry. Now, tell me why you came to vist me today.

She had said she was strong but he knew that comfort and strength could come from sadness. That was what she had.

It was during my explanation to my young daughter that I finally realized why I had been drawn to this particular practice of law. Yes, some of my clients were just gaming the system. They were charlatans no better than the banks they were taking on. But some of mu clients were downtrodden and disadvantaged. They were true underdogs in society and I wanted to stand for them and keep them in their homes for as long as I possibly could.

I didn't have all the answers but experience told me that they would come.

Time had eroded the bond between them. They were strangers who shared the same story.

Guilt," he said. "You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they'll take you under and you'll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture.

They call him Stormy Monday, but he's kind of a dick every single day.

I'm a believer in the single-bullet theory. You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.

The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had.

When people think they have discovered or earned a certain knowledge on their own, they are more apt to hold on to it.

And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

Repeat offenders mean repeat customers and McGinley was both, as many of my clients tend to be.

didn't think it was possible to be more than a mile from a Starbucks at any given point in the county, maybe even the world.

People are the worst animals," Rider said. "They will do anything to each other. Just to indulge their fantasies.

I knew the moment I decided to visit her the day before that I was buying myself another round of hope and hurt. But some people are fated this way, fated to play the same music over and over like a scratched record.

Everybody has a need for their past, Bosch thought. Sometimes it pulls harder on you than the future.

The case seemed to underline what many in homicide work knew; you can't explain crazy.

For every action 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.

His eyes strayed past us to the television. On the program they were now selling a glove with small rubber bristles on the palm for grooming pets. "I know what else you could use that for," Adkins said. He made a masturbation motion with his hand and winked and smiled at Thompson. "That's what they're really selling that for, you know.

And when they were finally naked they moved

More inmates died of suicide than the needle on death row in California.

Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.

Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-nine previous novels, including #1 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 sixty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels and is the executive producer of Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. He spends his time in California and Florida.