Parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to hold it against you when you end up wrong.
You can’t know people that well, man. Everybody’s got a private room.
There is no end of things in the heart.Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she believed in. She understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside...
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...
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.
The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling.
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
She had played the part in an episode of a television show called Bosch, which Ballard knew was based on the exploits of a now-retired LAPD detective who had formerly worked at RHD and the Hollywood d...
Oxnard was the biggest city in Ventura County. Its unattractive name was that of a sugar beet farmer who built a processing plant in the settlement in the late nineteenth century. The city totally sur...
Nothing came up on the pubic comb, because you don’t have a lot down there to comb. Bottom
Nobody should grow old. And everybody should get the chance.
Nobody in this world is who they say they are. Nobody. Not when they’re in their own room with the door shut and locked. And nobody knows anybody, no matter what they think... The best you can hope fo...
Neither spoke, neither made a sound except for the deep exhalation of breath. First he felt her hips shudder, and soon after he desperately reached up and pulled her down into an embrace as his own bo...
In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and m...
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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Guilt, he said. You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they’ll take you under and you’ll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture.
Frank Morgan, George Cables, Art Pepper, Ron Carter, and Thelonious Monk.
Everybody’s got a cage that keeps out the sharks. Those who open the door and venture out do so at their own risk.