Quotes by Michael Connelly

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.

Youre an asshole, you know that, Haller?I nodded and headed back to the door.When I need to be.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Bosch knew the dawn had nothing on the dusk. Dawn always came up ugly, as if the sun was clumsy and in a hurry. The dusk was smoother, the moon more graceful. Maybe it was because the moon was more patient. In life and nature, Bosch thought, darkness always waits.

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

“Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.”

“What is important is not what you hear said, its what you observe.”