Quotes About Clarity

silence was darkness, and that naming shone a light.

You have a decision to make and right now too little information for making it." By chance or instinct, she had hit on the type of reasoning that could move my grandfather

Writing does for me what you got in that glass does for you. If I can write about it, I can understand it. And I can put it in the ground. That's all I want to do.

The tunnel was the place where vision narrows and the investigator sees only the bird in hand.

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

the morning before. Bosch thought

I found out who I was.

Breadth and depth. What the editors want.

Yes, I'm fine. I feel good, actually. Now that I know." "I know what you mean. I remember the time when I decided for good. When I said fuck it, this is what I do.

You didn't try to hold on to someone you should have, she said, I held on to someone I shouldn't have. I held on too long. Thing is, I knew what it was leading to, deep down I knew. It was like standing on the tracks and seeing the train coming at you but being too mesmerized by the bright light to move, to save yourself.

Michael Connelly

DSS—didn't see shit.

I'm going to go have a talk with Detective Chu." "You think he held something back on us?" "That's what I'm going to find out.

it and he says he wasn't. I also knew where I was going. I knew it leveled off up there. He didn't.

decírselo tú? No estoy segura de querer entrar ahí. —Claro, Cassie, iré a decírselo ahora mismo.

speaker and shout. 'Mary

People often mistook a sugar high for clarity of thought. Bosch knew the truth was that the rush made them take chances and they made mistakes.

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

Once again, vague terminology helped conceal what was really going on.

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Montaigne said three hundred years ago, 'Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.