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1 " There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men. "
― Michael Connelly , The Scarecrow (Jack McEvoy, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #19)
2 " Far as I know, it was a righteous bust. I’m "
3 " I quickly crossed the room "
4 " possibility. Angela Cook’s online search had only "
5 " corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching. "
6 " story about how a sixteen-year-old kid becomes a stone-cold killer. Hell, getting an innocent "
7 " There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren’t enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men. "
8 " The art of sports writing always amazed me. Nine out of ten times the reader already knows the outcome of your story before reading it. They know who won, they probably even watched the game. But they read about it anyway and you have to find a way to write with an insight and angle that makes it seem fresh. "
9 " go in "
10 " I mean like with the love of your life. Everybody’s got one person out there. One bullet. And if you’re lucky in life, you get to meet that person. And once you do, once you’re shot through the heart, then there’s nobody else. No matter what happens—death, divorce, infidelity, whatever—nobody else can ever come close. That’s the single-bullet theory. "
11 " Think of all the great journalism we’ve seen in our lifetimes. The corruption exposed, the public benefit. Where’s that going to come from now with every paper in the country getting shredded? Our government? No way. TV, the blogs? Forget it. My friend who took the buyout in Florida says corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching. "
12 " But I also knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the legality of the police’s lying to a suspect if the lie would reasonably be seen as such by an innocent person. "
13 " Breadth and depth. What the editors want. "
14 " You don’t have to be an interrogator at Abu Ghraib to know that time never favors the suspect. "
15 " Headless Body in Topless Bar. "
16 " I must be able to tell more than what happened. I must tell why. It’s breadth and depth again—the ol’ B and D—and I am used to that. "
17 " Where’s your car? At LAX? "
18 " card stolen. It didn’t matter that I told them I hadn’t reported the cards stolen. Someone else had, and that someone had known my account numbers as well as my home address, birth date, mother’s maiden name and Social Security number. I demanded that the accounts be reopened and the service reps gladly complied. The only catch was that new credit cards with new numbers had to be issued and sent to my home. That would take days and in the meantime I had no credit. I was being fucked with on a level I had never experienced before. "
19 " This is a common practice. You go to a site and your ID is captured and sent on for marketing use elsewhere. It’s essentially the origin of spam. "
20 " treated "
