408 Quotes by Michael Connelly

The question of how you can hope and expect someone to forgive you when deep down you don’t forgive yourself.

No Way Back is my kind of novel – a tough, taut thriller – Mofina knows the world he writes about.

Take every case personally and you get angry. It builds a fire. It gives you the edge you need to go the distance every time out.

Can’t complain because nobody listens.

Writing does for me what you got in that glass does for you. If I can write about it, I can understand it. And I can put it in the ground. That’s all I want to do.

It was the Holy Grail of detective work. It had nothing to do with evidence or legal procedure or probable cause. It was just knowing it in your gut. Nothing in her life beat it.

He called them human tumbleweeds moving with the winds of fate.

Don’t go growing a conscience on me,” I said. “I’ve been down that road. It doesn’t lead you to anything good.

He knew that you didn’t win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that.