City of Bones Quotes

“Everybody’s got a cage that keeps out the sharks. Those who open the door and venture out do so at their own risk.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“If we can’t be honest with ourselves, how can we ever tell the truth to the people out there?”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“In every murder is the tale of a city,” he said.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“When you have more to look back at than forward to, you start thinking about the things you’ve done.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“No matter what happens in the world, there will always be the need for heroes.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“It was like seeing a child in ill-fitting clothes, obvious hand-me-downs. It always seemed to say something about the child. That they were wanting. That they were second.”
― Michael Connelly, City of Bones

“I’m sorry.” Guyot nodded and said, “My daughter has her own family up in Seattle. I see them on special occasions.” Bosch felt like asking why only on special occasions but didn’t. He thanked the man again and left.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“THE old lady had changed her mind about dying but by then it was too late. She had dug her fingers into the paint and plaster of the nearby wall until most of her fingernails had broken off. Then she had gone for the neck, scrabbling to push the bloodied fingertips up and under the cord. She broke four toes kicking at the walls. She had tried so hard, shown such a desperate will to live, that it made Harry Bosch wonder what had happened before. Where was that determination and will and why had it deserted her until after she had put the extension cord noose around her neck and kicked over the chair? Why had it hidden from her?”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“Almost every day a John Q who still kept the faith brought in doughnuts for the division. A little way of saying there were still those out there who knew or at least understood the difficulties of the job. Every day in every division cops put on the badge and tried to do their best in a place where the populace didn’t understand them, didn’t particularly like them and in many instances outright despised them. Bosch always thought it was amazing how far a box of doughnuts could go in undoing that.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“The past had a way of coming back up out of the ground. Always right below your feet.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“Child cases haunted you. They hollowed you out and scarred you. There was no bulletproof vest thick enough to stop you from being pierced. Child cases left you knowing the world was full of lost light.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“Sometimes knowledge was an awful thing.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“boots.” The origin of the term was obscure. One school of thought was that it referred to boot camp, another that it was a sarcastic reference to rookies being the new boots of the fascist empire.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“I should go out on the radio with it. Must be a slow day for the media—getting more what’s-happening calls from reporters than I am getting service calls from citizens. They all want to do something on the first one, the actress on Mulholland. You know, a death-of-a-Hollywood-dream story. And they’d probably jump all over this latest call, too.” “Yeah, what is it?” “A citizen up in Laurel Canyon. On Wonderland. He just called up and said his dog came back from a run in the woods with a bone in its mouth. The guy says it’s human—an arm bone from a kid.” Bosch almost groaned. There were four or five call outs like this a year. Hysteria always followed by simple explanation: animal bones. Through the windshield he saluted the two body movers from the coroner’s office as they headed to the front doors of the van. “I know what you’re thinking, Harry. Not another bone run. You’ve done it a hundred times and it’s always the same thing. Coyote, deer, whatever. But listen, this guy with the dog, he’s an MD. And he says there’s no doubt. It’s a humerus. That’s the upper arm bone.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“Lost Light The Narrows The Closers”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“of wooden stakes into the”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“He had always known that he would be lost without his job and his badge and his mission. In that moment he came to realize that he could be just as lost with it all. In fact, he could be lost because of it. The very thing he thought he needed the most was the thing that drew the shroud of futility around him.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“type with ten fingers?”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“hung herself”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“But time has a way of changing things. It’s a circle. It takes power away and gives it to those who once had none. Right now your father is the one who is destroyed.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“In death, she would be treated the way she had been in life, left alone and forgotten.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“remembered it while driving around all morning delivering search warrants at the local hospitals. “Speaking”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“You people, Bosch thought. It was always said like that, as if the police were another species. The blue species which carried armor that the horrors of the world could not pierce. “When”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“no longer tell if he was upset by being so far”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“it and he says he wasn’t. I also knew where I was going. I knew it leveled off up there. He didn’t.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones

“Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and”
― Michael Connelly, City Of Bones