Michael Connelly Quotes

Now I

Shifted one step

She was on a roll and everybody knew it. It was what cops and prosecutors called being in the tube. It was a surfing reference. It meant they had ridden the case into the water tunnel where everything...

It is in the instinctual interpretation of voice and personality that we form our judgments of others. Nothing beats that. Not fingerprints, not DNA, not the pointed finger of an eyewitness.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

It’s like the laws of physics—for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yo...

Harry, get an ambulance. I stood up and stepped back from the scene. I felt my chest growing tight, a clarity of thought coming over me. In all my years I had spoken for the dead many times. I had ave...

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really dropped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twel...

So, he wondered,

There is no end of things in the heart.

Had going on it.’ Lindell laughed as though I had suggested something absurd.

The black heart does not beat alone.

They need you until they don’t need you.

You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.

The best defense was a good lock or a mean dog. Or both.

Reasonable Doubt for a Reasonable Fee. Call the Lincoln Lawyer. Bosch

Don’t have a profile ready for you yet, Jaye. Then what do you have? A suspect.

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...

You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong. I’m strong, Harry. Now, tell me why you came to vist me today.

Dramatically the number of homicides. This had spurred a