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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5372872 | At first I thought common nouns were hardest hit, coffee and doorway and so on, but it soon became clear that the missing were mostly adjectives. | Leif Enger | ||
| c275ceb | He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry. | Leif Enger | ||
| aa74e03 | telegram saying, "Existence is great but don't read so much into it." | Leif Enger | ||
| 0ea92e3 | A laugh reverberated through his chest, into her, and before she was ready Wolf settled her feet onto a patch of squishy moss. She scrambled out of his hold, caught her balance, then punched him squarely in the arm. "Never do that again." | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 683d378 | That's the unforgivable sin, you know." "What is?" "Refusing to forgive someone." "Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously." | humor irony sin | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| 9ea3ecc | Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 066502b | plus a porch that runs along three sides of the house. I told Ma once the Howards had a room just for company, a room just for books, and a room just for plants, and she said that was three rooms too many. First time I ever saw any envy in my ma. David | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 9dfdf85 | I'm sorry, Shiloh," I whisper, over and over, both hands on him so's he won't try to get up. The blood's just pouring from a rip in his ear. "I'm so sorry! Jesus help me, I didn't know Bakers' dog could leap that fence." When we get to the bottom of the lane, instead of going up the road toward Judd's place, Dad turns left toward Friendly, and halfway around the first curve, he pulls in Doc Murphy's driveway. Light's still on in a window, b.. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 3fb4058 | Happiness is wanting what you have. Being happy with what you've got. Enjoying it, and making it all it could be. | action-learning complexity self-development strategy | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| 929363a | Don't expect trouble. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| c93c318 | Sistersville, which is halfway between Wheeling and Parkersburg. Used to be, my | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 0f43f32 | The dogs were fighting now, and Judd throws his Pabst can at 'em. "You-all shut up!" he yells. "Hush up!" The can hits the biggest dog, and they all" | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| d3a6390 | Last of all, I take the lard bread from my pocket and feed it to Shiloh in little pieces, letting him lick my fingers after every bite. I wrap my arms around him, pat him, run my hands over his ears, even kiss his nose. I tell him about a million times I love him as much as I love my ma. The | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 4c7ef83 | Everybody has a need for their past, Bosch thought. Sometimes it pulls harder on you than the future. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 80def97 | And when they were finally naked they moved | Michael Connelly | ||
| 4819062 | 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. | Michael Connelly | ||
| cda3ec3 | 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. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 0b138e2 | There was more silence and Bosch pictured his partner on the other end of the line in a $900 suit and a bankrupt frown. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 80869d6 | 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." | Michael Connelly | ||
| 7697fce | 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. | Michael Connelly | ||
| f37bd10 | 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.. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 7defc1a | 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 .. | Michael Connelly | ||
| cf6e222 | don't worry, I'm not going to hold it against you when you end up wrong. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 2af3aeb | No matter what happens in the world, there will always be the need for heroes. | Michael Connelly | ||
| b9fc93b | 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. | Michael Connelly | ||
| cde5e68 | 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. | noir | Michael Connelly | |
| f6de3c9 | 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 .. | Michael Connelly | ||
| f0c0eaa | 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. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 027e148 | If you get into a game of talking to the media, you keep the story alive. Information is oxygen. Without it they die. | Michael Connelly | ||
| c6b8019 | 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 .. | Michael Connelly | ||
| a1730f4 | extreme high | Michael Connelly | ||
| 8837627 | He looked at the old case file he had pulled and still held in his hand. He put the phone down on the coffee table and leaned back on the couch and opened the file. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 51136d9 | called Hector Villabona and confirmed that | Michael Connelly | ||
| f0c804d | On my way out of rent-a-car row I saw a sign with an arrow pointing the way to Paradise Road. I thought that everybody needed a sign like that. I wished that it was that easy. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 09fbcb8 | There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. | Michael Connelly | ||
| b60b84d | He knew that you didn't win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that | Michael Connelly | ||
| 929b491 | about seven months ago. Now we have these guys. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 7549a83 | Now I | Michael Connelly | ||
| 5f847f8 | Darkness waits. But it comes no matter what you do. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 43069e0 | There is no end of things in the heart. | Michael Connelly | ||
| b4462e7 | Nobody should grow old." "And everybody should get the chance." | Michael Connelly | ||
| 1efcef0 | Civil unrest occurs when the feelings of overwhelming powerlessness hit critical mass. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 700223a | Somebody once called the media the merchants of chaos. | Michael Connelly | ||
| dd0d74f | They call him Stormy Monday, but he's kind of a dick every single day. | Michael Connelly |