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— Michael Connelly
Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?
— Michael Connelly
Everybody counts, or nobody counts.
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Mr. Elliot will see you now.
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own trouble he was paying for. I handled his mother's foreclosure defense and got her
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Civil unrest occurs when the feelings of overwhelming powerlessness hit critical mass.
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All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society's institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.
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It's my policy." -Harry Bosch
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It is an amazing thing to be able to hold everything that is important to you in one arm.
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batches of samples collected from
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But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer ...
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Success makes a lot of bad shit go away. So
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The next message was from Roy Lindell. He also followed the standard of brevity. All right, asshole, I've got something for you. Call me.
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There was more silence and Bosch pictured his partner on the other end of the line in a $900 suit and a bankrupt frown.
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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
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Because it's a hot door and we have to be careful. You never open a door on a burning room.
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I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
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Can't complain because nobody listens.
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She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top ...
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What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
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I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
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Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.
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I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.
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In now, whenever I think of something. She smiled and he smiled and they went back into
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They need you until they don't need you.
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The black heart does not beat alone.
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Everybody has a need for their past, Bosch thought. Sometimes it pulls harder on you than the future.
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there is a light that never goes out
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thanks to the many police officers who over the years have given me an insight into their jobs and lives. I also want to ackowledge Tom Mangold
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Somebody once called the media the merchants of chaos.
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Form on the floor. All
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It is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
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We want the truth, Detective. You are confusing that with what we choose to tell the public.
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The characters I write about are very internal.
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elite squad that went after the tough cases with the relentless skill of a boar rooting in the mud for a truffle.
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It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
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No matter how much they tried to dress her up with neon and family entertainment she [Las Vegas] was still a whore.
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failed to pay off with
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People are the worst animals," Rider said. "They will do anything to each other. Just to indulge their fantasies.
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Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car.
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Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
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As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
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I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
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Parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid.
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Smith & Wesson 9mm - satin finished, stainless steel and loaded with eight rounds of XTPs.
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It ain't cheap anywhere," Bosch said.
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had been published years earlier, Bosch was nevertheless
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Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and
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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.
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dramatically the number of homicides. This had spurred a
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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.
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Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
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I nodded and made a notation on my legal pad. It read Got you, motherfucker.
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Time had eroded the bond between them. They were strangers who shared the same story.
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Little Peter's," Soto said.
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more creepy charm than an evangelist.
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jurisprudence. I
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It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit.
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No longer tell if he was upset by being so far
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corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.
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A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.
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I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.
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Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
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sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new
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I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.
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Better hope so," she said.
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What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
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A man who looks guilty is found guilty.
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the cop-friendly Sherma Barthlett as the on-call
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Who was that supervisor?" "That was Art Donovan.
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The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
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center. He said no. He said, in very fine English, 'I buy, I don't sell.' Then he escorted me out. But I think that was Tran. Something about him.
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She came to the Cleopatra and her attention was immediately drawn to the side-by-side Tigris and Euphrates Towers. Her
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fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell
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Swag?" "Scientific wild ass guess.
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might be followed. They were the hunters, not the prey. Bosch wondered what Lewis and Clarke were doing. Did they expect that he
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Believe me or care, then I don't have a chance.
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Play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you
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That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
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As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
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I put my hand down below the table to check my zipper. You have to stand before a jury only once with your fly open and it will never happen again
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Knowing that the instrument could produce a sound that echoed all the sadness and hope of humanity gave him pause.
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He knew evil could never be vanquished. It just moved from one place to another and waited.
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about seven months ago. Now we have these guys.
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Lobby door was locked, and when I buzzed apartment 12C, it was
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Getting the quote right isn't what matters. It's remembering what it means.
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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962. — Michael Connelly
All these years in the straight life and she still had a whore's pride.
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Reasonable Doubt for a Reasonable Fee. Call the Lincoln Lawyer. Bosch
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We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.
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that. You see, not all of the casinos have
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The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked.
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Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
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Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully
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If you get into a game of talking to the media, you keep the story alive. Information is oxygen. Without it they die.
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Between 7th and 8th Streets, and then the location of the
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