The Black Ice Quotes

“You can’t know people that well, man. Everybody’s got a private room.” “So”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Ice

“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

“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

“I found out who I was.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Ice

“All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good.”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Ice

“this kid his asshole, then that's the cost. But”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Ice

“an electrical”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Ice

“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