The Wrong Side of Goodbye Quotes

“Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the port did. Nothing could stop the tide of hope and desire. Bosch”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“Artists are supposed to stay hungry.” “That’s bullshit. That’s a myth invented to keep the artist down because art is powerful. You give an artist both money and power and they’re dangerous.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“It had been Bosch’s experience that when you looked back at a life, you used a magnifying glass. Everything was bigger, amplified.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“He knew that in his internal universe, there was a mission etched in a secret language, like drawings on the wall of an ancient cave, that gave him his direction and meaning. It could not be altered and it would always be there to guide him to the right path.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“Bosch leaned back and took in air. He felt immense sadness come over him. He didn’t know all the details. He had heard only Vance’s view of the story—an eighteen-year-old’s experience filtered through the frail and guilty memory of an eighty-five-year-old. But he knew enough to know that what happened to Vibiana wasn’t right. Vance had left her on the wrong side of good-bye, and what happened in June brought about what happened in February. Bosch had a gut feeling that Vibiana’s life was taken from her long before she put the rope around her neck. The death certificate offered details that Bosch wrote down. Vibiana took her life on February 12, 1951. She was seventeen. Her next of kin was listed as her father, Victor Duarte. His address was on Hope Street, which had been one of the streets Bosch had written down after studying the map of the USC neighborhood. The street name seemed like a sad irony now. The lone curiosity on the document was the location of death. There was only an address on North Occidental Boulevard. Bosch knew that Occidental was west of downtown near Echo Park”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“He had also read Tolkien in Vietnam. It was a popular book among combat veterans, a rich fantasy about another world that took them away from the reality of where they were and what they were doing.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“Bosch experienced a sense of déjà vu as he looked through the contents. He had also read Tolkien in Vietnam. It was a popular book among combat veterans, a rich fantasy about another world that took them away from the reality of where they were and what they were doing.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“think”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“Century City lawyer named Cecil Dobbs,”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“Stevens, a well-known actress and singer Bosch recognized from appearances on the television shows Hawaiian Eye and 77 Sunset Strip.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“this”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“In a town like Tallahassee it pays to diversify. I like to say the one thing I won’t do is defend FSU football players. I’m a Gator and can’t cross that line.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“of the other revelations and confirmations that came out of his conversation with Gabriela. Bosch had asked her how she had learned of Santanello’s death in Vietnam and she said she knew in her heart that he had been killed when a week went by and she did not receive a letter from him. He had never gone that long without writing her. Her intuition was sadly confirmed when later she saw a story in the newspaper about how the shooting down of a single helicopter in Vietnam had hit Southern California particularly hard. All the Marines on the chopper had California hometowns and had previously been stationed at El Toro Marine Air Base in Orange County. The lone corpsman who was killed had trained at Camp Pendleton in San Diego after being raised in Oxnard. Gabriela also told Bosch that Dominick’s face was on one of the murals at the park. She had put it there many years before. It was on the mural called the Face of Heroes—several depictions of men and women forming one face. Bosch remembered seeing the mural as he had walked through the park earlier that day. “Here you are, sir,” the clerk said to Bosch. “You pay at the window to your left.” Bosch took the document from the clerk and proceeded to the cash window. He studied it as he walked and saw the name Dominick Santanello listed as father. He realized how close he was to finishing the journey Whitney Vance had sent him on. He was disappointed that the old man would not be on hand at the finish line. He was soon back on the 5 and heading north.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the port did. Nothing could stop the tide of hope and desire.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“military service was one of them. She knew he had served but he had never”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“C’est quand on arrive à la fin qu’on veut revenir en arrière…”
― Michael Connelly, Sur un mauvais adieu (Harry Bosch t. 19)

“humans will sink to the lowest depths if the right opportunity presents itself.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“Christian Scott.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“decades. Bosch pulled up his phone’s search app and typed in USC EVK to see what might come up. It got a hit right away. The EVK was still operating on the campus and was located in the Birnkrant Residential College on 34th Street. He pulled the address up on his maps app and was soon looking at an overview of the sprawling campus”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“it”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“In a courtroom I can sell ice to Eskimos”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“If you’re not cop, you’re little people.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“coming at the interview from a”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“last address listed was in a place called The Villages. After writing down the information, Bosch checked for a website and found that The Villages was a massive retirement community in Sumter County, Florida. Further searching of online records”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“didn’t move his eyes from the word even as”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“somehow acquired when the rapist”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“shifted one step”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“morning when I left. I checked my car for a GPS tag and yet somehow Creighton’s following me up Laurel Canyon Boulevard.” “Maybe it”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“have sat in your mailbox for four days.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“She’ll change. It’s like winning the lottery, man. Found money, more than she’ll ever need.” “And I guess that’s the point. More than she’ll ever need. You ever read those stories about people who win the lottery and how it ruins their lives? They can’t adjust, they meet people with their hands out wherever they go. She’s an artist. Artists are supposed to stay hungry.” “That’s bullshit. That’s a myth invented to keep the artist down because art is powerful. You give an artist both money and power and they’re dangerous.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye