Quotes from City of Bones

Michael Connelly ·  416 pages

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“Everybody’s got a cage that keeps out the sharks. Those who open the door and venture out do so at their own risk.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones


“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.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones


“remembered it while driving around all morning delivering search warrants at the local hospitals. “Speaking”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones


“No matter what happens in the world, there will always be the need for heroes.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones


“If we can’t be honest with ourselves, how can we ever tell the truth to the people out there?”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones



“it and he says he wasn’t. I also knew where I was going. I knew it leveled off up there. He didn’t.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones


“Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones


“no longer tell if he was upset by being so far”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones


“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”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones


About the author

Michael Connelly
Born place: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
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