The Dark Hours Quotes

“It sometimes seemed to her as though the biggest barricades in the so-called justice system were on the inside, before you even got out the door.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“Sir, I can’t talk to you without a mask,” Moore said loudly. “Go get a mask.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“The brain protects itself by switching to essential life support in a time of physical trauma. Only after safety returns do the full details of the trauma start to come back.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“face.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“He looks really old to be a detective,” Hoyle said. “He’s the oldest living detective in L.A.,” Ballard said. “But don’t tell him I said that. He’ll get mad.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“Skeeing was pure LAPD jargon—a less formal word for surveilling. It meant doing a drive-by of a person of interest, taking a measure of him. Its origin was debated: One camp thought it derived from the word schematic, meaning getting the physical parameters of a suspect’s place of business or residence. Others said it was short for scheming—taking the first step in a plan to hit a house of criminal activity.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“authors: Alafair Burke, Steph Cha, Ivy Pochoda.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“Yeah. You ever see that Sidney Lumet movie The Verdict?” “I don’t think so. I don’t go to a lot of movies anymore.” “It’s an old one with Paul Newman. I went through a Paul Newman phase. Anyway, he’s a lawyer—a drunk, actually—and he tries to drum up business by going to funerals and passing out business cards.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“should”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“because the conversation would go out live”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“the biggest barricades in the so-called justice system were on the inside, before you even got out the door.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“The sun and salt air worked deeply on her muscles and eased the tension and pain. It”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“The dark side of the moon was where people lived who had been through what Cindy Carpenter had just been through. Where a few dark hours changed everything about every hour that would come after. The place that only the people who had been through it understood. Life was never the same.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“Just so you know, I’m guessing she had no doubt about whether she was raped, okay, McGee? Her hesitation was most likely about making a report to a department and officers who don’t give a shit and don’t view rape as much of a crime.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“studying the rim for marks left by the weapon that had fired”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“The FBI is plugged in with the NSA and the whole federal alphabet soup of agencies. They’re cutting-edge when it comes to this. They’re doing things the public has no idea about.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“for the first time in a long time Ballard thought she might lose her job. And for the first time in a long time she thought that might not be so bad.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“BMW electrics that were used by the forensics teams. The department had bought a fleet of them for use by detectives, but the sixty-mile range per battery charge limited their usefulness when detectives needed to go farther while riding the momentum of a case. The advertised range also dropped considerably in freeway driving, and it was a rare thing to conduct an investigation in L.A. without driving on a freeway.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“You can come in and you can lose the mask. I haven’t got the vax yet but I’ll risk it. And”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“It’s pretty clear if they can’t defund us, they want to de-see us,”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“But Ballard knew that it could also be that this was the new LAPD—officers stripped of the mandate of proactive enforcement and waiting to be reactive, to hit the streets only when it was requested and required, and only then doing the minimum so as not to engender a complaint or controversy. To Ballard, much of the department had fallen into the pose of a citizen caught in the middle of a bank robbery.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“People process and express shock and grief in different ways. Unusual behavior or a lack of obvious emotion should not be considered suspicious.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“ready”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours

“It was a long shot but Ballard knew that long shots never paid off if you didn’t take them.”
― Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours