“Everybody’s got a cage that keeps out the sharks. Those who open the door and venture out do so at their own risk.”
“Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.”
“remembered it while driving around all morning delivering search warrants at the local hospitals. “Speaking”
“No matter what happens in the world, there will always be the need for heroes.”
“If we can’t be honest with ourselves, how can we ever tell the truth to the people out there?”
“it and he says he wasn’t. I also knew where I was going. I knew it leveled off up there. He didn’t.”
“Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and”
“no longer tell if he was upset by being so far”
“You people, Bosch thought. It was always said like that, as if the police were another species. The blue species which carried armor that the horrors of the world could not pierce. “When”
“Did he mean me or Jenny Mullendore was a slut?" Joanne wondered. "Because honestly, I don't see how she has the time for slut activities with those two preschoolers of hers. Me, I've got lots of time.”
“Etta and Mattie went way back, a singular term that claimed co-knowledge of all the important events in their lives and almost all of the unimportant ones.”
“Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable”
“people are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential—the healthy, the fit, and the powerful.”
“Giveya two-bits" cash for that ol tree." Ordinarily my friend is afraid of saying no; but on this occasion she promptly shakes her head: "We wouldn't take a dollar." The mill owner's wife persists. "A dollar, my foot! Fifty cents. That's my last offer. Goodness, woman, you can get another one." In answer, my friend gently reflects: "I doubt it. There's never two of anything.”
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