Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.
They’ll both know somebody’s out there, coming for them.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ Tom Jefferson rescinded those laws as soon as he became president.
They need you until they don’t need you.
There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.
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?
The rain continued through Monday morning and slowed Bosch’s drive into Brentwood to a frustrating crawl. It wasn’t heavy rain, but in Los Angeles any rain at all can paralyze the city. It was one of...
The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation.
The black heart does not beat alone.
Ten years might as well be a hundred if you are doing time for a crime you didn’t commit, he said.
Slowly, his eyes came up and he looked through the kitchen window and out through the Cahuenga Pass. The lights of Hollywood glimmered in the cut, a mirror reflection of the stars of all galaxies ever...
She’ll change. It’s like winning the lottery, man. Found money, more than she’ll ever need. And I guess that’s the point. More than she’ll ever need. You ever read those stories about people who win t...
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...
Reasonable Doubt for a Reasonable Fee. Call the Lincoln Lawyer. Bosch
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My favourite quotes, Part Three-- from Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch seriesThe Closers
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...
Knowing that the instrument could produce a sound that echoed all the sadness and hope of humanity gave him pause.
It's my policy. -Harry Bosch
He knew evil could never be vanquished. It just moved from one place to another and waited.