Quotes from The Black Echo

“You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer...”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“There was more silence and Bosch pictured his partner on the other end of the line in a $900 suit and a bankrupt frown.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“Non… Gratum… Anum… Ro—’ I can’t make that out.” “Rodentum,” Bosch said. Sakai looked at him. “Dog Latin,” Bosch told him. “Not worth a rat’s ass. He was a tunnel rat. Vietnam.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“We want the truth, Detective. You are confusing that with what we choose to tell the public.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“more creepy charm than an evangelist.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“called Hector Villabona and confirmed that”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“thanks to the many police officers who over the years have given me an insight into their jobs and lives. I also want to ackowledge Tom Mangold”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“might be followed. They were the hunters, not the prey. Bosch wondered what Lewis and Clarke were doing. Did they expect that he”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers’ bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“center. He said no. He said, in very fine English, ‘I buy, I don’t sell.’ Then he escorted me out. But I think that was Tran. Something about him.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It’s subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“Smith & Wesson 9mm—satin finished, stainless steel and loaded with eight rounds of XTPs.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went. Bosch”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“We called it the black echo.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“in now, whenever I think of something.” She smiled and he smiled and they went back into”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“He defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“justice is incidental to law and order.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“He took the 101 out to the Valley and then the 405 north to the 118 and west. He got off in Chatsworth and drove into the rocky bluffs at the top corner of the Valley.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“Lewis and Clarke. Why hadn’t she said”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“There was an engine approaching. Sounded like a truck to the boy. And now he thought he could hear the crunching of tires on the gravel access road that skirted the reservoir.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

“aquella operación, los cajones acabaron en una disposición diferente: la correcta. Bosch estaba convencido de que alguien los había sacado todos para registrarlos por debajo y por detrás y luego los había vuelto a colocar en el lugar equivocado. Después,”
― Michael Connelly, quote from The Black Echo

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