The Gods of Guilt Quotes

“Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside. Earl Briggs sits on my jury, Gloria Dayton, too. They are there with Katie and Sandy, my mother, my father, and soon Legal Siegel as well. Those I have loved and those I have hurt. Those who bless me and those who haunt me. My gods of guilt. Every day I carry on and I carry them close. Every day I step into the well before them and I argue my case.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“There are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many.You don't need to add to them ”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“They need you until they don’t need you.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“Fulgoni gave me a look that I interpreted as a warning that I was crossing into a territory that he had deemed off-limits when we had last discussed his testimony. I gave him a look back that said too fucking bad. I have you under oath. I own you.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“When people think they have discovered or earned a certain knowledge on their own, they are more apt to hold on to it.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“Guilt,” he said. “You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they’ll take you under and you’ll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“Ten years might as well be a hundred if you are doing time for a crime you didn’t commit, he said.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“It’s a left-brain right-brain thing. People are more agreeable toward people on their left.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client’s favor. They weren’t always the same thing.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“I reached between the seats to the backseat, where her purse was on the floor. It was the size of a grocery bag and it weighed a ton.

"What the hell do you have in this thing?"

"Everything."

I didn't ask for further explanation. I managed to pull the bag up to the front seat, open it, and find her iPad. I put the bag on the floor between my feet, lest I pull a muscle leveraging it into the back again.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“You're an asshole, you know that, Haller?"

I nodded and headed back to the door.

"When I need to be.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“A man who looks guilty is found guilty.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“It is in the instinctual interpretation of voice and personality that we form our judgments of others. Nothing beats that. Not fingerprints, not DNA, not the pointed finger of an eyewitness.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“The question of how you can hope and expect someone to forgive you when deep down you don’t forgive yourself.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“Nothing like having a sense of direction to get the blood moving.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don’t need to add to them.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“conundrums”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“own trouble he was paying for. I handled his mother’s foreclosure defense and got her”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“ameliorate”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“I crawled up the embankment to Earl. I knew right away that he was dead.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“I suspected that Judge Leggoe would go along to get along.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“you”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“I guess. I don’t remember his name but it”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“the judge ignore it and drop”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“lobby door was locked, and when I buzzed apartment 12C, it was”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“What’s your point, Legal?” “The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don’t need to add to them.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“Okay, Mick. And for what it’s”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt