“You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“I’m a believer in the single-bullet theory. You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“Getting the quote right isn't what matters. It's remembering what it means.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“I didn’t have all the answers but experience told me that they would come.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It could only hold its mystique in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes up and the intrigue is gone, replaced by a sense of hidden danger. It was a place of takers and users, of broken sidewalks and dreams. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“Jack said he’d make some calls to the bank and Global Underwriters.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“the pale light coming in through the French door leading to the deck I could see who it was. “Milton. What the—” “Shut up, asshole. You surprised to see me? Did you think I was going to let them wash me down the toilet without doing something about it?” “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Listen, there are”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“There is no end of things in the heart.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“The next message was from Roy Lindell. He also followed the standard of brevity. “All right, asshole, I’ve got something for you. Call me.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“furnished. In one corner was a baby grand piano that caught my eye.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“There is no end of things in the heart.
Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she believed in. She understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.
I am fifty-two-years old and I believe it. At night when I try to sleep but can’t, that is when I know it. It is when all the pathways seem to connect and I see the people I have loved and hated and helped and hurt. I see the hands that reach for me. I hear the beat and see and understand what I must do. I know my mission and I know there is no turning away or turning back. And it is in those moments that I know there is no end of things in the heart.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“had going on it.’ Lindell laughed as though I had suggested something absurd.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
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“And here is the thing about them men they was Australians they knew full well the terror of the unyielding law the historic memory of UNFAIRNESS were in their blood and a man might be a bank clerk or an overseer he might never have been lagged for nothing but still he knew in his heart what it were to be forced to wear the white hood in prison he knew what it were to be lashed for looking a warder in the eye and even a posh fellow like the Moth had breathed that air so the knowledge of unfairness were deep in his bone and marrow.”
― Peter Carey, quote from True History of the Kelly Gang
“Trees are like people and give the answers to the way of Man. They grow from the top down. Children, like treetops, have flexibility of youth, and sway more than larger adults at the bottom. They are more vulnerable to the elements, and are put to the test of survival by life's strong winds, rain, freezing cold, and hot sun. Constantly challenged. As they mature, they journey down the tree, strengthening the family unit until one day they have become big hefty branches. In the stillness below, having weathered the seasons, they now relax in their old age, no longer subject to the stress from above. It's always warmer and more enclosed at the base of the tree. The members remain protected and strong as they bear the weight and give support to the entire tree. They have the endurance.”
― quote from Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
“A dream doesn't mean anything. I dreamed the other night that I went riding on a dinosaur.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Gameboard of the Gods
“Because when you love someone," she'd met my eyes and answered without a flicker in her confidence, "their world interests you more than your own.”
― Laurelin Paige, quote from Hudson
“I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory”
― Sam Savage, quote from Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
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