Desert Star Quotes

“the most likely place that elected politicians ran afoul of the law was in the area of money.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“It’s an angry world,” Bosch said.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“the dark engine of murder would never run low on fuel.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“Sometimes you do the wrong thing for the right reason. And this was that time and this was that case.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“Harry, I’m not going to bullshit you and tell you everything is copacetic,” Ballard said. “But I told them, if you go, I go. I said that directly to the chief.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“He had lost much of his faith in the goodness of people. To him the violence wasn’t the departure from the norm. It was the norm.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“arc of the moral universe bends toward justice,”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“going to lie to the media or anybody”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“He saw that the sun was riding low in the sky. It would be sunset soon. He had planned to be at the Mallory docks, Key West’s sunset mecca, for the island’s signature moment, but he was juiced by the idea that he might know where Finbar McShane was. There would be another sunset tomorrow. If he was still here to see it. The parking lane was one-way. It took him on a swing under the causeway and then out at the entrance to another marina. He saw boat ramps and, beyond them, the houseboats grouped together on the water like a floating village. Most of them had smaller runabouts with outboards attached to back-door docks and decks. The houseboats were painted in pastels, two-story structures sitting on barges and lashed together to create a community. From Bosch’s angle of view he counted eight houses extending out into Garrison Bight. The second”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“back”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“levels of albumin and renal epithelial cells. These are clear signs of damage somewhere in the kidneys, bladder, or urinary tract. Most of the time it signals what is called clear cell renal cell carcinoma. This man likely had a tumor in one or possibly both kidneys, but of course we can’t be sure, since we don’t have him to examine.” “Would he have known he had cancer?” Ballard asked.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“Sometimes you do the wrong thing for the right reason.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“Bosch turned off the screen and sat there thinking about how the truth was always manipulated by those in power. It bothered him to know things that shouldn’t be kept secret.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“Little did they know that the case would hold media interest for just one day. The next night, the ex-wife of football great and not-so-great actor O. J. Simpson would be found murdered along with an acquaintance in Brentwood, and that would suck all media attention away from the Pearlman case as well as everything else in the city.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“Bosch now recognized it as an action of regret. The killer covered his victim’s face so he would no longer have to see it.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“Bosch lifted his glass and took the first and last sip from it. The bourbon was sweet on his tongue but fire in his throat.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“parked so that their driver’s-side windows faced each other and they could talk without getting out of their vehicles. In LAPD slang, it was called a “69 meeting” because of the positioning of the cars.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“who was really with him that night?” “I’m not telling you. It’s the same risk today that it was back then. He’s still a star. I’m not going to ruin his career.” “We would keep it confidential. We wouldn’t even put it on paper.” “No. Nothing stays a secret forever, but if I told you, it would be a betrayal.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“She guessed that his joining the cold case squad had fully consumed him to the point where he hadn’t had time to listen his music.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“They walked back to Bosch’s car in silence. Ballard guessed that they were both rethinking the scenario they had just spun, looking for holes in”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“He knew that the dark engine of murder would never run low on fuel. Not in his lifetime. Not in anyone’s.”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“door”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star

“Shelly Berg Trio’s take on “Blackbird,”
― Michael Connelly, Desert Star