What is important is not what you hear said, it’s what you observe.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.”)
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren’t enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it’s the cause that is usually most vilified.
I’m relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.
He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company
You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.
Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?
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.
That’s justice,” she said, nodding at the statue. “She doesn’t hear you. She doesn’t see you. She can’t feel you and won’t speak to you. Justice, Detective Bosch, is just a concrete blonde.
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.
You’re 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?
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.