Lost Light Quotes

“You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“I’m a believer in the single-bullet theory. You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“I didn’t have all the answers but experience told me that they would come.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“Getting the quote right isn't what matters. It's remembering what it means.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“On my way out of rent-a-car row I saw a sign with an arrow pointing the way to Paradise Road. I thought that everybody needed a sign like that. I wished that it was that easy.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“There is no end of things in the heart.

Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she believed in. She understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.

I am fifty-two-years old and I believe it. At night when I try to sleep but can’t, that is when I know it. It is when all the pathways seem to connect and I see the people I have loved and hated and helped and hurt. I see the hands that reach for me. I hear the beat and see and understand what I must do. I know my mission and I know there is no turning away or turning back. And it is in those moments that I know there is no end of things in the heart.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“I was no longer part of us. I was one of them.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“I was now retired. I was supposedly comfortable. I had a house with no mortgage and a car that I’d paid cash for. I had a pension that covered more than I needed covered. It was like being on vacation. No work, no worries, no problems. But something was missing and deep down I knew it. I was living like a jazz musician waiting for a gig. I was staying up late, staring at the walls and drinking too much red wine. I needed to either pawn my instrument or find a place to play it. And then I got the call.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“There is no end of things in the heart. Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she believed in. She understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those velvet folds, then it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.
I am fifty-two years old and I believe it. At night when I try to sleep but can't, that is when I know it. It is when all the pathways seem to connect and I see people I have loved and hated and helped and hurt. I see the hands that reach for me. I hear the beat and see and understand what I must do. I know my mission and I know there is no turning away or turning back. And it is in those moments that I know there is no end of things in the heart.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“Closers”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“persona non grata.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“absolute power corrupts absolutely?”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“REACT is a BAM squad, Bosch. By Any Means. There are no rules with these guys.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“had been part of an organization that promoted isolation from the outside world, that cultivated the “us versus them” ethic. I had been part of the cult of the blue religion and now I was out, excommunicated, part of the outside world. I had no badge. I was no longer part of us. I was one of them.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“That was just the way it had to be. There is no end of things in the heart.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“which is an entry”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“that”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“furnished. In one corner was a baby grand piano that caught my eye.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“employees.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“document”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It could only hold its mystique in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes up and the intrigue is gone, replaced by a sense of hidden danger. It was a place of takers and users, of broken sidewalks and dreams. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“There is no end of things in the heart.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“had going on it.’ Lindell laughed as though I had suggested something absurd.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“The next message was from Roy Lindell. He also followed the standard of brevity. “All right, asshole, I’ve got something for you. Call me.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“Jack said he’d make some calls to the bank and Global Underwriters.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“Good-bye, Harry.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“the pale light coming in through the French door leading to the deck I could see who it was. “Milton. What the—” “Shut up, asshole. You surprised to see me? Did you think I was going to let them wash me down the toilet without doing something about it?” “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Listen, there are”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light