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I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real
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Michael Connelly |
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It had been one of the biggest landgrabs in the city's history and Bosch knew the story well, having tried all his life to counter his love of baseball and the Dodgers with the ugly story buried beneath the diamond where, as a boy, he watched Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale pitch. It seemed to him that every gleaming success in the city had a dark seam to it somewhere, usually just out of view.
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Michael Connelly |
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The good ones all had that hollow space inside. The empty place where the fire always burns. For something. Call it justice. Call it the need to know. Call it the need to believe that those who are evil will not remain hidden in darkness forever.
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Michael Connelly |
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Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.
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Michael Connelly |
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The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling. It was a patchwork of asphalt spot repairs and loose gravel over a crumbling base of decades-old concrete.
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Michael Connelly |
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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.
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Michael Connelly |
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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 cliches. They're cliches because they're true. You don't go into the darkness without it going into you and taking its piece.
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Michael Connelly |
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Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes."
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Michael Connelly |
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Artists are supposed to stay hungry." "That's bullshit. That's a myth invented to keep the artist down because art is powerful. You give an artist both money and power and they're dangerous."
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Michael Connelly |
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you....
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Michael Connelly |
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Darkness waits. All things come to the dark.
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Michael Connelly |
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Getting the quote right isn't what matters. It's remembering what it means.
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Michael Connelly |
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He loved the city most at night. The night hid many of the sorrows. It silenced the city yet brought deep undercurrents to the surface. It was in this dark slipstream that he believed he moved most freely. Behind the cover of shadows. Like a rider in a limousine, he looked out but no one looked in. There was a random feel to the dark, the quirkiness of chance played out in the blue neon light. So many ways to live. And to die.
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Michael Connelly |
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one of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into the darkness. He was a trombone player in a matching band in a world somewhere else.
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Michael Connelly |
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Through studying the past we learn our future.
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Michael Connelly |
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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.
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Michael Connelly |
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She had said she was strong but he knew that comfort and strength could come from sadness. That was what she had.
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Michael Connelly |
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We want the truth, Detective. You are confusing that with what we choose to tell the public.
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Michael Connelly |
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I didn't have all the answers but experience told me that they would come.
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Michael Connelly |
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He defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company.
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Michael Connelly |
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Time had eroded the bond between them. They were strangers who shared the same story.
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Michael Connelly |
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All these years in the straight life and she still had a whore's pride.
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Michael Connelly |
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The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had.
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Michael Connelly |
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It had been Bosch's experience that when you looked back at a life, you used a magnifying glass. Everything was bigger, amplified.
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Michael Connelly |
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People are the worst animals," Rider said. "They will do anything to each other. Just to indulge their fantasies."
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Michael Connelly |
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You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself. I have learned this late in life but not too late. It's never too late.
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Michael Connelly |
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The rich kept you waiting so that you could feel free to admire all that they had.
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Michael Connelly |
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Because it's a hot door and we have to be careful. You never open a door on a burning room.
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Michael Connelly |
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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
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Michael Connelly |
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Everybody has a need for their past, Bosch thought. Sometimes it pulls harder on you than the future.
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Michael Connelly |
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And when they were finally naked they moved
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Michael Connelly |
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He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand......The weight and guilt of possibly having made a horrible mistake so long ago was lifted. It was Bosch who felt like the man proven innocent and released from a cage.
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Michael Connelly |
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I once read a book about a reporter written by a reporter who described the life as always running in front of a thresher. I thought it was the most accurate description I'd read.
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Michael Connelly |
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There was more silence and Bosch pictured his partner on the other end of the line in a $900 suit and a bankrupt frown.
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Michael Connelly |
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Non... Gratum... Anum... Ro--' I can't make that out." "Rodentum," Bosch said. Sakai looked at him. "Dog Latin," Bosch told him. "Not worth a rat's ass. He was a tunnel rat. Vietnam."
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Michael Connelly |
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Most criminal defendants talk their way into prison. Few talk their way out. The best single piece of advice I have ever given a client is to just keep your mouth shut. Talk to no one about your case, not even your own wife. You keep close counsel with yourself. You take the nickel and you live to fight another day.
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Michael Connelly |
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The house in Silverlake was dark, its windows as empty as a dead man's eyes. It was an old California Craftsman with a full front porch and two dormer windows set on the long slope of the roof. But no light shone behind the glass, not even from above the doorway. Instead, the house cast a foreboding darkness about it that not even the glow from the streetlight could penetrate. A man could be standing there on the porch and Bosch knew he pro..
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Michael Connelly |
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EVEN THOUGH I KNEW it was going to be what she would ask me, Graciela McCaleb's request gave me pause. Terry McCaleb had died on his boat a month earlier. I had read about it in the Las Vegas Sun. It had made the papers because of the movie. FBI agent gets heart transplant and then tracks down his donor's killer. It was a story that had Hollywood written all over it and Clint Eastwood played the part, even though he had a couple decades on ..
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Michael Connelly |
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don't worry, I'm not going to hold it against you when you end up wrong.
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Michael Connelly |
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No matter what happens in the world, there will always be the need for heroes.
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Michael Connelly |
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Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client's favor. They weren't always the same thing.
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Michael Connelly |
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he always carried the feeling that he was struggling toward some kind of resolution and knowledge of purpose. That there was something good in him or about him. It was the waiting that was so hard. The waiting often left a hollow feeling in his soul. And he believed people could see this, that they knew when they looked at him that he was empty.
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Michael Connelly |
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sad about a man she had never met. She poured syrup over her short stack and started to eat anyway. "So, did you stay in touch after the academy?" she asked. "Not really," Bosch said. "We were close then, and there were class reunions, but we were on different tracks. It wasn't like now with social media and all of that Facebook stuff. He was up in the Valley and came to Hollywood after I'd left." Ballard nodded and picked at her food. The ..
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Michael Connelly |
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McCaleb classified these cops as avenging angels. It had been his experience that these cop/angels were the best investigators he ever worked with. He also came to believe that they traveled closest to that unseen edge beneath which lies the abyss.
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Michael Connelly |