The Scarecrow Quotes

“There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“The art of sports writing always amazed me. Nine out of ten times the reader already knows the outcome of your story before reading it. They know who won, they probably even watched the game. But they read about it anyway and you have to find a way to write with an insight and angle that makes it seem fresh.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“I mean like with the love of your life. Everybody’s got one person out there. One bullet. And if you’re lucky in life, you get to meet that person. And once you do, once you’re shot through the heart, then there’s nobody else. No matter what happens—death, divorce, infidelity, whatever—nobody else can ever come close. That’s the single-bullet theory.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“I ordered one more and the bartender made a deal with me. He'd only splash whiskey on my ice if I gave him my car keys. That sounded like a good deal to me and I took it.

"Death is my beat"

"Technically, I don't work for you. My paper has rules about reporters misrepresenting themselves."
Schifino reached into his pocket and pulled out his cash. He handed a dollar across the desk to me. I reached across the murder scene photos to take it.
"There," he said. "I just paid you a dollar. You work for me."

I thought he was guilty as sin. It was the only way I could live with losing the case.

Abasiophilia.
Paraphilia.
Single-Bullet Theory: "I mean like the love of your life. Everybody's got one person out there. One bullet. And if you're lucky in life, you get to meet that person. And once you do, once you're shot through the heart, then there's nobody else. No matter what happens--death, divorce, infidelity, whatever--nobody else can ever come close. That's the single-bullet theory."

Unrelenting pain. He waited for someone to stop it. To save him from it. But no one came. No one heard him.
He waited in darkness.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“...'the single bullet theory'...with the love of your life. Everybody's got one person out there. One bullet. And if you're lucky in life, you get to meet that person. And once you do, once you're shot through the heart, then there's nobody else. No matter what happens--death, divorce, infidelity, whatever--nobody else can ever come close.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“I nodded and looked behind her at the wall covered with photos and cards and newspaper clips. She had a classic headline from one of the New York tabs on the wall: “Headless Body in Topless Bar.” You couldn’t beat that one.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“Entonces me olvidé de los cincuenta dólares”
― Michael Connelly, La oscuridad de los sueños

“People too poor to afford their own legal defense and reliant on the government that was prosecuting them to also defend them.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“Bittaker and Norris”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“This is a common practice. You go to a site and your ID is captured and sent on for marketing use elsewhere. It’s essentially the origin of spam.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“treated”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“I must be able to tell more than what happened. I must tell why. It’s breadth and depth again—the ol’ B and D—and I am used to that.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“Headless Body in Topless Bar.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“Where’s your car? At LAX?”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“You don’t have to be an interrogator at Abu Ghraib to know that time never favors the suspect.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“Breadth and depth. What the editors want.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“But I also knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the legality of the police’s lying to a suspect if the lie would reasonably be seen as such by an innocent person.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“Think of all the great journalism we’ve seen in our lifetimes. The corruption exposed, the public benefit. Where’s that going to come from now with every paper in the country getting shredded? Our government? No way. TV, the blogs? Forget it. My friend who took the buyout in Florida says corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“go in”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“card stolen. It didn’t matter that I told them I hadn’t reported the cards stolen. Someone else had, and that someone had known my account numbers as well as my home address, birth date, mother’s maiden name and Social Security number. I demanded that the accounts be reopened and the service reps gladly complied. The only catch was that new credit cards with new numbers had to be issued and sent to my home. That would take days and in the meantime I had no credit. I was being fucked with on a level I had never experienced before.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“Far as I know, it was a righteous bust. I’m”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“I quickly crossed the room”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren’t enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow