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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e1b5976 | Mr. Elliot will see you now. | Michael Connelly | ||
| c6440ba | There was an engine approaching. Sounded like a truck to the boy. And now he thought he could hear the crunching of tires on the gravel access road that skirted the reservoir. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 0a088b3 | Drop | This Fangirl | ||
| fdac140 | which were necessities. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 9eabf8d | All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good. That there was meaning. In the youth shelter, the foster homes, the Army and Vietnam, and now the department, 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 peo.. | Michael Connelly | ||
| ea0fab4 | Sex murders were usually the work of psychopaths and with that psychology was an innate ability to lie, to act, to feign surprise and horror when it was needed. Psychopaths were great liars. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 7597cb0 | The tunnel was the place where vision narrows and the investigator sees only the bird in hand. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 9141a6b | You had to have an emotional response. It was that response that lit the match that started the fire of relentlessness. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 7455d6a | Ron Carter was accompanied by two guitars and playing a Milt Jackson song called "Bags' Groove." | Michael Connelly | ||
| e4adee5 | sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new | Michael Connelly | ||
| 6397afc | he had come to believe that parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid. When Maddie first came to live with him Bosch didn't have this vision right away, but soon enough he earned it. When he closed his eyes at night, he saw her older: | Michael Connelly | ||
| b51961d | Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty. | Michael Connelly | ||
| f027d26 | was. "Uh, hi, Walter. This is my daughter, Hayley, and this is her mom, Maggie McPherson." "Hi," Hayley said shyly. Maggie nodded and looked uncomfortable. Walter made the mistake of thrusting his hand out to Maggie. If she could have" | Michael Connelly | ||
| d958d79 | Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully | Michael Connelly | ||
| 7f0e5b5 | Please do," she said. "My husband's not going to believe this." "Well, your husband may not be happy, because I'm not going to be able to lift those cabinets up and put them back." "Don't worry. He and his friends can do that. They hang out in here enough and this will be a great story for him to tell." "That makes me feel better. We're going to write out a receipt for you now." They put the weapons in the trunk of the car, laying them acro.. | Michael Connelly | ||
| e7bc845 | dramatically the number of homicides. This had spurred a | Michael Connelly | ||
| 66b42fd | him in '93, so there is no reason to believe he | Michael Connelly | ||
| 448b41d | In the hallway Bosch switched on the air conditioning in the interview room and set it at sixty-four. It would soon cool off in the room and instead of sweating, Mitford would start to get cold, though - coming from Canada - maybe not. After he chilled for a while Bosch would take another run at him and see if anything new came out. He checked his watch. It was almost five a.m. and the case meeting the feds were organizing was not for anoth.. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 734a905 | Now the paper looked like somebody who had been through chemo--thin, unsteady, and knowing the inevitable could only be held off for so long. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 32bd872 | They sat with it in silence for a while. Bosch ran it all through once more and couldn't knock it down. It was only case theory but it held together. It worked, but it didn't mean that it was the way it had happened. Every case had unanswered questions and loose ends when it came to motives and actions. Bosch always though that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully rea.. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 68d3f49 | In the morning, Bosch sat on the rear deck of his house and watched the sun come up over the Cahuenga Pass. It burned away the morning fog and bathed the wildflowers on the hillside that had burned the winter before. He watched and smoked and drank coffee until the sound of traffic on the Hollywood Freeway became one uninterrupted hiss from the pass below. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 47a0629 | It ain't cheap anywhere," Bosch said." | Michael Connelly | ||
| a114652 | twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form, | Michael Connelly | ||
| d11abfe | The art of sports writing always amazed me. Nine out of ten times the reader already knows the outcome of your story before reading it. They know who won, they probably even watched the game. But they read about it anyway and you have to find a way to write with an insight and angle that makes it seem fresh. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 4eae78e | Little pieces of grace were everywhere if you looked. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 3a46cd0 | Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 52d7e62 | situ, | Michael Connelly | ||
| e8e056b | found out | Michael Connelly | ||
| 82cb992 | Everybody is looking for redemption. For something. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 9da7d62 | We were parked in the lot of a strip shopping center on Tustin Boulevard in the city of Orange. Book Carnival was a small business between a rock shop and what looked like a vacant slot. Three doors down was a gun store. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 786e969 | I couldn't become bogged down with it. I had to get | Michael Connelly | ||
| ce81884 | He believed that war brought out the true character in a person, good or bad. He had no sympathy for Banks or the others. | Michael Connelly | ||
| dc867c0 | push | Michael Connelly | ||
| 16f7227 | closers. So let's close this one out." Bosch and Rider stood" | Michael Connelly | ||
| 29ecdf7 | She supposed it felt like freedom, if freedom was a fall into the unknown. | freedom | J.V. Jones | |
| da95897 | When you take hope away it leaves a void. Some people fill that up with anger and with violence. To simply blame it on the media is wrong. It's much deeper than that. | Michael Connelly | ||
| d4a46fc | You can't know people that well, man. Everybody's got a private room. | Michael Connelly | ||
| f4b1a93 | Our children are our hearts. | Michael Connelly | ||
| c2676f4 | The best and fastest way to break a conspiracy was to identify the weakeast link in the chain and find a way to exploit it. When one link was broken, the chain would come loose. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 22b6af0 | Out of the blue and into the black. That's what he said going on a tunnel mission was. We called it the black echo. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 2f0a246 | executive assistant. "Mrs. Albrecht, how are you today?" "Very well. I just got here and thought maybe I had missed you." "Nope. I just got here too." "Come in, please." The house had a two-story entry area" | Michael Connelly | ||
| 3161dc9 | It is an amazing thing to be able to hold everything that is important to you in one arm. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 8261fad | I was simply in love with my daughter and how she viewed her world. The literal way in which she took it all in and took it on. I knew it wouldn't last long and so I treasured every moment I saw and heard of it. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 73e8f54 | believe me or care, then I don't have a chance. | Michael Connelly |