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The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2) QUOTES

The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2) QUOTES

1 " You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

2 " Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it? "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

3 " All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

4 " Are you like him?” she asked. “Who?” “Timido. Alone out there in the dark world.” “Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

5 " one of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into the darkness. He was a trombone player in a matching band in a world somewhere else. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

6 " Through studying the past we learn our future. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

7 " ... he always carried the feeling that he was struggling toward some kind of resolution and knowledge of purpose. That there was something good in him or about him. It was the waiting that was so hard. The waiting often left a hollow feeling in his soul. And he believed people could see this, that they knew when they looked at him that he was empty. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

8 " There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

9 " The coyote howled once more. Bosch thought he could hear a dog answering somewhere in the distance. “Are you like him?” she asked. “Who?” “Timido. Alone out there in the dark world.” “Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes.” “Yes, "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

10 " There were elegantly made up women sitting on bus benches who were not really women and not really waiting for buses. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

11 " All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

12 " messenger boy here. He wasn’t supposed to find out "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

13 " Uno de los casos que Harry aún no había logrado resolver era el de una persona cuyo cadáver había aparecido en seis pedazos: uno en cada descanso de la escalera de incendios de un hotel de Gower Street. Aquel crimen atroz no había escandalizado a nadie en la oficina. Incluso corría el chiste de que por suerte la víctima no se había alojado en el Holiday Inn, que tenía quince plantas. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

14 " an electrical "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

15 " this kid his asshole, then that's the cost. But "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

16 " He loved the city most at night. The night hid many of the sorrows. It silenced the city yet brought deep undercurrents to the surface. It was in this dark slipstream that he believed he moved most freely. Behind the cover of shadows. Like a rider in a limousine, he looked out but no one looked in. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

17 " Bosch’s mind touched his memory of his brief meeting with his own father. A sick old man on his death bed. Bosch had forgiven him for every second he had been robbed. He knew he had to or he would face the rest of his life wasting his pain on it. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

18 " All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good. That there was meaning. In the youth shelter, the foster homes, the Army and Vietnam, and now the department, he always carried the feeling that he was struggling toward some kind of resolution and knowledge of purpose. That there was something good in him or about him. It was the waiting that was so hard. The waiting often left a hollow feeling in his soul. And he believed people could see this, that they knew when they looked at him that he was empty. He had learned to fill that hollowness with isolation and work. Sometimes drink and the sound of the jazz saxophone. But never people. He never let anyone in all the way. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

19 " You can’t know people that well, man. Everybody’s got a private room. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

20 " I found out who I was. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)