Michael Connelly Quotes

Situ,

Situation and to decide

Charge for the Times—thanks to Bosch

It seemed to Bosch to be a form of torture heaped upon torture. Corazon was hunched over the steel table, her bloody and gloved hands deep inside the gutted torso, working with forceps and a long-blad...

Loneliness had been the trash can fire he huddled around for most of his life.

Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.

Livingstone had said sympathy was no substitute for action. That was an essential brick in Bosch’s wall. He had built himself as a man of action and, at the moment when the integrity of his life’s wor...

Took him to a place where they poured honey on

Good-bye, Harry.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

I’ve seen long careers and careers cut short. The difference is in how you handle the darkness.

Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the...

The next time.

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.

It didn’t matter what war was fought, coming back home was another battle altogether.

Smith & Wesson 9mm—satin finished, stainless steel and loaded with eight rounds of XTPs.

She looked hard-shell and maybe a little weary for so early in the day, the way lady cops and hookers

With the money from the legal settlement, he hires a beautiful young woman from the local university to type for him as he orally composes the sentences. But soon he realizes she is editing and rewrit...

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….

Do you know a six-letter word for a man of constant sorrow and loneliness? she asked after sliding the window open and then checking her nail for damage. Bosch.