Home > Work > The Gods of Guilt (Mickey Haller, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #25)
1 " Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside. Earl Briggs sits on my jury, Gloria Dayton, too. They are there with Katie and Sandy, my mother, my father, and soon Legal Siegel as well. Those I have loved and those I have hurt. Those who bless me and those who haunt me. My gods of guilt. Every day I carry on and I carry them close. Every day I step into the well before them and I argue my case. "
― Michael Connelly , The Gods of Guilt (Mickey Haller, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #25)
2 " Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside. "
3 " Fulgoni gave me a look that I interpreted as a warning that I was crossing into a territory that he had deemed off-limits when we had last discussed his testimony. I gave him a look back that said too fucking bad. I have you under oath. I own you. "
4 " They need you until they don’t need you. "
5 " There are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many.You don't need to add to them "
6 " Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client’s favor. They weren’t always the same thing. "
7 " I suspected that Judge Leggoe would go along to get along. "
8 " It’s a left-brain right-brain thing. People are more agreeable toward people on their left. "
9 " The question of how you can hope and expect someone to forgive you when deep down you don’t forgive yourself. "
10 " Ten years might as well be a hundred if you are doing time for a crime you didn’t commit, he said. "
11 " Guilt,” he said. “You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they’ll take you under and you’ll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture. "
12 " It is in the instinctual interpretation of voice and personality that we form our judgments of others. Nothing beats that. Not fingerprints, not DNA, not the pointed finger of an eyewitness. "
13 " A man who looks guilty is found guilty. "
14 " Okay, Mick. And for what it’s "
15 " What’s your point, Legal?” “The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don’t need to add to them. "
16 " own trouble he was paying for. I handled his mother’s foreclosure defense and got her "
17 " the judge ignore it and drop "
18 " lobby door was locked, and when I buzzed apartment 12C, it was "
19 " I guess. I don’t remember his name but it "
20 " When people think they have discovered or earned a certain knowledge on their own, they are more apt to hold on to it. "