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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3b6d147 | The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 5a465ff | I found out who I was. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 70b7407 | She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or | Michael Connelly | ||
| 62d0a0e | Sometimes hot sauce was the only way I knew I was still alive. | Michael Connelly | ||
| fe60072 | Michael Connelly. | John Grisham | ||
| 49c45e4 | Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went. Bosch | Michael Connelly | ||
| 17deb56 | Sonny | Michael Connelly | ||
| a3be2c1 | Through political opportunism and ineptitude, the city had allowed the [police] department to languish for years as an understaffed and underequipped paramilitary organization. Infected with political bacteria itself, the department was top-heavy with managers while the ranks below were so thin that the dog soldiers on the street rarely had the time or inclination to step out of their protective machines, their cars, to meet the people they.. | police politics | Michael Connelly | |
| d002f55 | Someone's coming." Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see the golf cart making its way up the steep and winding road to the" | Michael Connelly | ||
| 43046db | It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit. | Michael Connelly | ||
| c6ce309 | In a courtroom I can sell ice to Eskimos | Michael Connelly | ||
| c47fa32 | we hit the tunnel that marks the end of the freeway and dumps out onto the Pacific Coast Highway. I cracked the window open. I always loved the feeling I got when I'd swing out of the tunnel and see and smell the ocean. We followed the PCH as it took us north to Malibu. It was hard for me to go back to the computer when I had the blue Pacific right outside my office window. I finally gave up, lowered the window all the way, and just rode. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 24d160f | I crawled up the embankment to Earl. I knew right away that he was dead. | Michael Connelly | ||
| dcf9d56 | The coroner herself, Jayalalithaa Panneerselvam, was on scene. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 242ce43 | I read once in a book that it doesn't matter if you're lying beneath a marble tombstone on a hill or at the bottom of an oil sump, when you're dead you're dead. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 88e7852 | 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 | ||
| 9a11908 | parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid. | Michael Connelly | ||
| fd94f40 | decades. Bosch pulled up his phone's search app and typed in USC EVK to see what might come up. It got a hit right away. The EVK was still operating on the campus and was located in the Birnkrant Residential College on 34th Street. He pulled the address up on his maps app and was soon looking at an overview of the sprawling campus | Michael Connelly | ||
| 6304e22 | Christian Scott. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 0644117 | She was pretty pissed off, in fact, that she was under arrest and not going to be able to get her next fix in jail." "You don't sound like you have a lot of sympathy." "I do to an extent. I've dealt with addicts all my life, including in my own family, and it's hard to balance sympathy for them with the damage they do to their families and others." | Michael Connelly | ||
| f8773a1 | my camera." He" | Michael Connelly | ||
| 1a01e16 | When you walked the dog, did you see anything unusual on the street?" Ballard asked the old woman. "Anybody out of place?" "No, nothing unusual," Lantana said. "Is there any construction on the street? Workers hanging around?" | Michael Connelly | ||
| 4ba816d | John Brooks.' Immediately, I thought of the odds. First of just surviving in such a place, next of surviving and then becoming a cop. 'Vertical ghettos, each one of them. Me and John used to say it was the only time when you had to take the elevator up when you were going to hell.' I just nodded. This was out of my realm completely. 'And that's only if the elevators were working,' he added. I realized that I never considered that Brooks mig.. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 47a0544 | That's extortion," Cerrone said. "No, asshole, that's justice." | Michael Connelly | ||
| 0e69673 | her stories and a once-a-week | Michael Connelly | ||
| 8e88e57 | He was a worn-out old man whose eyes had quit caring about anything but the odds on three-year-olds. | Michael Connelly | ||
| f1f5560 | C'est quand on arrive a la fin qu'on veut revenir en arriere... | Michael Connelly | ||
| 9f2b989 | The sins of the father, he thought. His life and his world had once again clobbered his daughter. If he vowed to make those who did this pay, didn't that include himself? | Michael Connelly | ||
| 3e17c72 | aproximadamente | Michael Connelly | ||
| e0a9842 | La mayoria de los hombres con los que he estado... Es como si quisieran algo de mi que no les daba. No se lo que era, pero simplemente no lo tenia para darlo. Entonces o me iba demasiado pronto o me quedaba demasiado. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 541b527 | A veces creo que conozco a los desconocidos mejor que a nadie, mejor que a mi mismo. Aprendo mucho de la gente en mi trabajo. A veces pienso que ni siquiera tengo vida. Solo tengo la vida de los demas... | Michael Connelly | ||
| 355c208 | If you're not cop, you're little people. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 02bb068 | Everyone was oblivious to the seething hatred and anger that churned in other parts of the city -- beneath the surface like an undiscovered fault line waiting to open up and swallow all above. | Michael Connelly | ||
| b3f0c7f | 19 | Michael Connelly | ||
| c234d22 | 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. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 677f21f | We are all circling the drain, he thought. Some are closer to the black hole than others; | Michael Connelly | ||
| febf7e1 | He taught Bosch early on that in society all victims are not created equal, but to the true detective they must be. | Michael Connelly | ||
| b9a51ce | The gray had not yet chased all of the brown out of his hair but it was getting close to victory. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 4ab88b4 | Gentlemen," the waiter said. "It looks like we are in need of more essential vitamins." Haller picked up his empty glass and offered it. "We definitely are," he said. "We definitely are." | Michael Connelly | ||
| 4c995be | Are you okay?" he asked. "I'm fine, yeah," she said. She wiped tears off her cheeks. "Somebody who totally fucked me over died today," she said. "Then why are you sad?" he asked. "I mean, fuck him. If it was a him." "I don't know. I guess because it means what he did can never be changed. His death makes it permanent." "I think I get that." -- | Michael Connelly | ||
| fe0a9a7 | I opened | Michael Connelly | ||
| 75ebc6c | Farmers Market, one of his favorite places in the city. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 42e4a43 | She was cremated. | Michael Connelly | ||
| b78a1c5 | barramundi | Michael Connelly |