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“She ran a streak of foundation under each eye, highlighter down the bridge of her nose, and bronzer beneath each cheekbonea layer of armor before battle. Because thats what these parties were to he...”
“Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to move northwest at about 2.0 inches per year relative to the interior of North ...”
“The right things often happen for the wrong reason.”
“I grew excited when I realized this basic asymmetry implied that nothing no evidence, no information, no facts or data connected me to the stranger except for the evidence of my own personal obse...”
“A young, beautiful mayors with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve the assassination of her husband, the mayor.”
“Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine commun...”
“Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.”
“Only in California could the night air be lit not by fireflies, but radioactive porn star cumshots.”
“He owes me nothing, yet gives me everything in return. SHEA”
“I cant take any more of being careful around her. I want her. Not just for now, but for always.HEW”
“For the first time since I met her, I understand her need to keep her name secret and respect that. Here, someplace other than at home, we can be who we want, be with who we want, as long as it mak...”
“All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. HEW”
“Shea is in my arms in seconds. Were not just holding each other but pressing out all the bad, letting it seep from us, and allowing it to disintegrate in the air, leaving room for only the good wit...”
“the California supreme court, following the English common-law, decided that the owner of land bordering a watercourse was entitled only to the usufruct of the water; that if he used it he must ret...”
“Theres a passage in John Steinbecks East of Eden that does a pretty good job describing Californias rainfall patterns:The water came in a 30-year cycle. There would be five to six wet and wonderful...”
“Tell me once more about the eternal surf.”
“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...”
“If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense in which this city existing mainly on film and tape is our national capital, alas, and not j...”
“The problem with being a second-generation Californian is you're not objective about California itself. I think a lot of people come here for the comfort of it, or to reinvent themselves, and maybe...”
“Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”
