Blood Work Quotes

“An accident I could live with. All that time I was waiting, knowing that somebody had to die for me to live, I was getting myself ready to accept it as an accident. With an accident it’s like it was fated or something. But a murder… that comes with evil intent attached. It’s not happenstance. It means that I’m the benefactor of an act of evil, Doctor, and that’s why it’s different now.”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

“She had the two dollar bills ready”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

“That’s what my life was about for a long time,” he added quietly. “I was searching out evil. That was my job. And I was good at it but in the long run it was better than me. It got the best of me. I think—no, I know—that’s what took my heart.”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

“There is no sense in being haunted by good intentions.”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

“Okay, well a following sea is the one you have to watch out for. It’s the one that comes up behind a vessel. You don’t see it coming.”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

“anything”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

“Buddy Lockridge”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work

“need a driver for the next few days, maybe more. You want to do it, the job’s yours. I’m paying ten bucks an hour plus any meals. You’d have to bring a book or something because there will be a lot of sitting around waiting for me.”
― Michael Connelly, Blood Work