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The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3) QUOTES

The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3) QUOTES

1 " I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

2 " If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents? "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

3 " That's justice," she said, nodding at the statue. "She doesn't hear you. She doesn't see you. She can't feel you and won't speak to you. Justice, Detective Bosch, is just a concrete blonde. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

4 " Nobody in this world is who they say they are. Nobody. Not when they’re in their own room with the door shut and locked. And nobody knows anybody, no matter what they think... The best you can hope for is to know yourself. And sometimes when you do, when you see your true self, you have to turn away. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

5 " The black heart does not beat alone. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

6 " Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you…. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

7 " The house in Silverlake was dark, its windows as empty as a dead man’s eyes. It was an old California Craftsman with a full front porch and two dormer windows set on the long slope of the roof. But no light shone behind the glass, not even from above the doorway. Instead, the house cast a foreboding darkness about it that not even the glow from the streetlight could penetrate. A man could be standing there on the porch and Bosch knew he probably wouldn’t be able to see him. ‘You "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

8 " the best defense was a good lock or a mean dog. Or both. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

9 " To think about failure was to invite failure. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

10 " In the morning, Bosch sat on the rear deck of his house and watched the sun come up over the Cahuenga Pass. It burned away the morning fog and bathed the wildflowers on the hillside that had burned the winter before. He watched and smoked and drank coffee until the sound of traffic on the Hollywood Freeway became one uninterrupted hiss from the pass below. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

11 " Through political opportunism and ineptitude, the city had allowed the [police] department to languish for years as an understaffed and underequipped paramilitary organization. Infected with political bacteria itself, the department was top-heavy with managers while the ranks below were so thin that the dog soldiers on the street rarely had the time or inclination to step out of their protective machines, their cars, to meet the people they served. They only ventured out to deal with the dirtbags and consequently, Bosch knew, it had created a police culture in which everybody not in blue was seen as a dirtbag and was treated as such. Everybody. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

12 " That’s extortion,” Cerrone said. “No, asshole, that’s justice. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

13 " precarious "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

14 " turned the car around and it floated quietly down Lookout Mountain to Laurel Canyon. He took a right and drove to the canyon market, where he bought a six-pack of Anchor Steam. Then he took his beer and his questions back up the hill to Mulholland. He drove to Woodrow Wilson Drive and then down to his small house that stood on cantilevers and looked out across the Cahuenga Pass. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

15 " She said the problem was he could not drop his guard completely and he knew this was true. Bosch had spent a lifetime alone, but not necessarily lonely. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

16 " Through political opportunism and ineptitude, the city had allowed the department to languish for years as an understaffed and underequipped paramilitary organization. Infected with political bacteria itself, the department was top-heavy with managers while the ranks below were so thin that the dog soldiers on the street rarely had the time or inclination to step out of their protective machines, their cars, to meet the people they served. They only ventured out to deal with the dirtbags and, consequently, Bosch knew, it had created a police culture in which everybody not in blue was seen as a dirtbag and was treated as such. Everybody. You ended up with your André Galtons and your Rodney Kings. You ended up with a riot the dog soldiers couldn’t control. You ended up with a mural on a station house wall that was a damnable lie. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

17 " name many, many more. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

18 " Do we have a deal? "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

19 " The citizens want their police to protect them, to keep the plague from their eyes, from their doors. But those same John Q.’s are the first to stare wide-eyed and point the finger of outrage when they see close up exactly what the job they’ve given the cops entails. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

20 " just because they say it doesn’t make it true. After all, they’re lawyers. "

― Michael Connelly , The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)