408 Quotes by Michael Connelly

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    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.

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    What is important is not what you hear said, it’s what you observe.

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    The rich kept you waiting so that you could feel free to admire all that they had.

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    Darius McGinley had had only one profession since age eleven, drug dealer. He’d had only one true family, a gang.

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    What happens when you eat too much alphabet soup?” “What?” “You have a vowel movement.

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    She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top...

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    The paying jobs were few and she was often taken advantage of by the leeches who were part of the entertainment industry. But she persevered.

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    I’ve learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

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    Deep in my heart it still feels like I’m a journalist even though I haven’t worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

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