The Overlook Quotes

“He didn’t understand why he always saw people typing feverishly on their phones. He was sure it was some sort of warning, a sign of the decline”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“Past the dam the city spread out in a blanket of a million lights, which shimmered in the cool evening air like floating dreams.”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“We are all circling the drain, he thought. Some are closer to the black hole than others. Some will see it coming and some will have no clue when the undertow of the whirlpool grabs them and pulls them down into darkness forever.”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“foil for both the right and the left and always”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“There are always regulations, Harry. But just having them is not always enough. Repetition, routine—these are the cracks in any security system. We used to leave the cockpit doors on commercial airlines unlocked. Now we don’t. It takes an event of life-altering consequences to change procedures and strengthen precautions. Do you understand what I am saying?”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“Ferras started using his thumbs to type on the phone’s tiny keyboard. It looked like some sort of child’s toy to Bosch. Like the ones he had seen kids use on planes. He didn’t understand why people were always typing feverishly on their phones. He was sure it was some sort of warning, a sign of the decline of civilization or humanity but”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“habérmela contado a mí primero, porque esto podría hacerte sonar como una especie de chiflado vengativo.”
― Michael Connelly, El observatorio

“dañaba su causa porque estaba dando al enemigo un rostro y aumentando la rabia y la resolución de América.”
― Michael Connelly, El observatorio

“items belonging to the potential witness. There was a book called The Stand by Stephen King and a bag with toothpaste and a toothbrush in it. It all amounted to the meager belongings of a meager existence.”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“Like many detectives he preferred to use his own laptop because the computers provided by the department were old and slow and most of them carried more viruses than a Hollywood Boulevard hooker.”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“The digital world was always billed as a great advancement but he remained skeptical.”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“We are all circling the drain, he thought. Some are closer to the black hole than others;”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“the computers provided by the department were old and slow and most of them carried more viruses than a Hollywood Boulevard hooker.”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“The gray had not yet chased all of the brown out of his hair but it was getting close to victory.”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“In the hallway Bosch switched on the air conditioning in the interview room and set it at sixty-four. It would soon cool off in the room and instead of sweating, Mitford would start to get cold, though - coming from Canada - maybe not. After he chilled for a while Bosch would take another run at him and see if anything new came out. He checked his watch. It was almost five a.m. and the case meeting the feds were organizing was not for another four hours. There was a lot to do but he still had some time to work with Mitford. The first round had been productive. There was no reason for him to think there was nothing more to be gained by a second go at it.”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“How’s the victim doing?” “Victim?”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook

“them. He drank”
― Michael Connelly, The Overlook