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“If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?”
“Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here...”
“You're an asshole, you know that, Haller?"I nodded and headed back to the door."When I need to be.”
“What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?”
“Bosch knew the dawn had nothing on the dusk. Dawn always came up ugly, as if the sun was clumsy and in a hurry. The dusk was smoother, the moon more graceful. Maybe it was because the moon was more...”
“The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Suns...”
“The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had.”
“I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.”
“You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.”
“All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.”
