Echo Park Quotes

“if you can’t stand the ghosts, get out of the haunted house.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“Bosch took a step toward him. “Olivas, let’s get something clear before we go anywhere. You call me ‘Hotshot’ again and I’m going to shove the file up your ass without taking it out of my briefcase.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“the”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“we don’t pay for our mistakes alone. We take people down with us.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“We all have ghosts. It’s part of the job. With some jobs it’s a bigger part than with others. I had a boss once, he used to say, if you can’t stand the ghosts, get out of the haunted house.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“The mother was listed as Rosemary Foxworth, DOB 6/21/54, Philadelphia,”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“que haber sido. Bosch tuvo que esforzarse para contener su ira. —Bonito cuento de hadas —dijo—. Salvo por la parte de la historia en que la princesa nunca se despierta y el verdadero asesino se queda tan ancho y todo el mundo vive feliz después. Siga contándose este cuento. Quizás algún día pueda vivir con él. Bosch lo agarró con fuerza del brazo y lo condujo hacia la abertura en el seto.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“su escalada. Cuando llegó al descampado del aparcamiento no había rastro de Osani ni de su compañero.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“Traffic had already gotten worse. A lot of nine-to-fivers getting an early jump on the commute home. Friday afternoons were particularly brutal.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“There’s always a Starbucks around.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“You know, corruption of public officials, campaign finance violations, kidnapping, cats and dogs living together—the usual stuff.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“He took Figueroa Lane to Chavez Ravine Place and hit another stop sign. At one time the whole area up here was known only as Chavez Ravine.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“night before. His appreciation for the game had dropped markedly in recent years. He used the newspaper section mostly as a blind so that he could hold it up and appear to be reading while he was actually looking at Rachel. Other than the longer hair, she had changed little since he had last been with her. Still vibrantly attractive with an intangible sense of damage about her. It was in the eyes. They weren’t the hardened”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“Medical Center for assessment and”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“It was said that L.A. was a sunny place for shady people.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“He taught Bosch early on that in society all victims are not created equal, but to the true detective they must be.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“Bosch liked short prosecutors. They were always trying to make up for something and usually it was the defendant who ended up paying the price.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“Ultimately, Bosch was confounded”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“It was every detective’s nightmare. The worst-case scenario. A lead ignored or bungled, allowing something awful to be loose in the world. Something dark and evil, destroying life after life as it moved through the shadows. It was true that all detectives made mistakes and had to live with the regrets. But Bosch instinctively knew that this one was malignant. It would grow and grow inside until it darkened everything and he became the last victim, the last life destroyed.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“the security and transport of the”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“reached out and yanked on it. The string”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“a tunnel entrance.”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park

“Edgar was silent as it registered. The background sound of television went quiet and he then spoke in the weak voice of a child asking”
― Michael Connelly, Echo Park