Two Kinds of Truth Quotes

“He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one’s life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“Livingstone had said sympathy was no substitute for action. That was an essential brick in Bosch’s wall. He had built himself as a man of action and, at the moment when the integrity of his life’s work had been called into question by a man on death row, he had chosen to turn his sympathy for Elizabeth Clayton into action.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“In this country, there are two million people in prison. Two million. If the system gets it wrong one percent of the time, that is twenty thousand innocent people in jail. Lower it to half a percent and you're still at ten thousand people. This is what keeps me up at night. Why I always say, the scariest client is the innocent man. Because there is so much at stake.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“I told him through the door that he could take his job and shove it up his ass. 'Course, a week later I had to ask him to pull it out of his ass and give it back to me.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“People lie, the president lies, corporations lie and cheat.…The world is ugly and not many people are willing to stand up to it anymore.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“More inmates died of suicide than the needle on death row in California.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“Courts across the country had long approved the use of deception and trickery by police in an interview setting with a suspect, holding that an innocent person would see through the deception and not falsely confess to the crime.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“The sins of the father, he thought. His life and his world had once again clobbered his daughter. If he vowed to make those who did this pay, didn’t that include himself?”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“The paying jobs were few and she was often taken advantage of by the leeches who were part of the entertainment industry. But she persevered.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand......The weight and guilt of possibly having made a horrible mistake so long ago was lifted.
It was Bosch who felt like the man proven innocent and released from a cage.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“In his career, he had chased down hundreds of killers and put them in prison. If he was wrong about one, then it would put the lie to everything else.
It would cast him adrift.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“Now we find out she was the kind that would leave a baby in a crib to save herself.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“Bosch slotted a disc called Chemistry in the Bose and put the volume at midrange. It was an album of duets between Houston Person on tenor sax and Ron Carter on double bass. It was part of an ongoing musical conversation, their fifth and most recent collaboration,”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“duets between Houston Person on tenor sax and Ron Carter on double bass. It”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“The reality of the world was dark and horrifying”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

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― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

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― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“The chief didn’t respond. He leaned back in his chair and stared at a toy police helicopter hanging on a string from the ceiling. He liked to say it was the tiny department’s air squadron.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“True justice was the brass ring just out of reach.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

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― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

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― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

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― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“Hopper’s Nighthawks.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“he knew where they were. In the Central Valley, near Modesto, where Bosch had worked a case a few years before”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“She was pretty pissed off, in fact, that she was under arrest and not going to be able to get her next fix in jail.” “You don’t sound like you have a lot of sympathy.” “I do to an extent. I’ve dealt with addicts all my life, including in my own family, and it’s hard to balance sympathy for them with the damage they do to their families and others.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“Gentlemen,” the waiter said. “It looks like we are in need of more essential vitamins.” Haller picked up his empty glass and offered it. “We definitely are,” he said. “We definitely are.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“Livingstone had said sympathy was no substitute for action.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth

“Damn Russians,” Siegel muttered. “I hope I live long enough to see that guy impeached.”
― Michael Connelly, Two Kinds of Truth