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21 " It seemed to Bosch to be a form of torture heaped upon torture. Corazon was hunched over the steel table, her bloody and gloved hands deep inside the gutted torso, working with forceps and a long-bladed instrument she called the “butter knife.” Corazon was not tall and she stood on her tiptoes to be able to reach down and in with her tools. She braced her hip against the side of the autopsy table to gain leverage. "
― Michael Connelly , The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #26)
22 " checked the alignment of the bullet hole again. “After you pick up the stuff from Chung, go over to ballistics and see if you can get someone "
23 " between 7th and 8th Streets, and then the location of the "
24 " area "
25 " sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new "
26 " Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully "
27 " Please do,” she said. “My husband’s not going to believe this.” “Well, your husband may not be happy, because I’m not going to be able to lift those cabinets up and put them back.” “Don’t worry. He and his friends can do that. They hang out in here enough and this will be a great story for him to tell.” “That makes me feel better. We’re going to write out a receipt for you now.” They put the weapons in the trunk of the car, laying them across a blanket Bosch kept in his surveillance kit. They then thanked Mrs. Contreras and gave her the receipt. Finally they headed back toward Los Angeles. There was an almost palpable excitement "
28 " dramatically the number of homicides. This had spurred a "
29 " him in ’93, so there is no reason to believe he "
30 " Now the paper looked like somebody who had been through chemo—thin, unsteady, and knowing the inevitable could only be held off for so long. "
31 " They sat with it in silence for a while. Bosch ran it all through once more and couldn't knock it down. It was only case theory but it held together. It worked, but it didn't mean that it was the way it had happened. Every case had unanswered questions and loose ends when it came to motives and actions. Bosch always though that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully reasonable explanation for it? It was that understanding that kept him from watching and being able to enjoy films and television shows about detectives. He found them unrealistic in their delivery of what the general audience wanted: all of the answers. "
32 " It ain’t cheap anywhere,” Bosch said. "
33 " twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form, "
34 " Fair Warning dot com?” “Dot org. "
35 " lighted "
36 " I have waited twenty years for this phone call . . . and all this time I thought it would go away. I knew I would always be sad for my sister. But I thought the other would go away.” “What is the other, Henrik?” Though he knew the answer. “Anger . . . I am still angry, Detective Bosch.” Bosch nodded. He looked down at his desk, at the photos of all the victims under the glass top. Cases and faces. His eyes moved from the photo of Anneke Jespersen to some of the others. The ones he had not yet spoken for. “So am I, Henrik,” he said. “So am I.”- "The Burning Room" by Michael Connelly "
37 " LOS ANGELES IS LIKE YOUR BRAIN.YOU ONLY EVER USE 20% OF IT.BUT IMAGINE IF WE USED IT ALL. "
38 " when one reaches the top of a public agency, one becomes a politician, and politicians fall out of favor. "
39 " It seemed to him that every gleaming success in the city had a dark seam to it somewhere, usually just out of view. "
40 " Joel Bremmer, Times Staff Writer "