Quotes About Justice

You are under arrest for murder, attempted murder and general conspiracy to be an asshole. - Harry Bosch

I wanted to tell him that the judge was being insensitive and probably racist.

Anything else I should know

Michael Connelly

the biggest barricades in the so-called justice system were on the inside, before you even got out the door.

People too poor to afford their own legal defense and reliant on the government that was prosecuting them to also defend them.

It was difficult work. Bosch never got accustomed to viewing crime scenes. He had been to hundreds of them and seen the result of human inhumanity too many times to count. He always thought that if he got used to it, then he had lost something inside that was needed to do the job right. You had to have an emotional response. It was that response that lit the match that started the fire of relentlessness.

civil unrest instead of rioting.

the judge ignore it and drop

Michael Connelly

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than the cause, though it's the cause that is usually the most vilified.

name many, many more.

dramatically the number of homicides. This had spurred a

somehow acquired when the rapist

Bosch liked short prosecutors. They were always trying to make up for something and usually it was the defendant who ended up paying the price.

Lost Light The Narrows The Closers

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

That's my job, to forge the blade. To sharpen it. To use it without mercy or conscience. To be the truth in a place where everybody lies.

He taught Bosch early on that in society all victims are not created equal, but to the true detective they must be.

authors: Alafair Burke, Steph Cha, Ivy Pochoda.

True justice was the brass ring just out of reach.

the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life.

Far as I know, it was a righteous bust. I'm