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Harry Bosch
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Daily quotes from homicide detective Harry Bosch. Inspirational and entertaining. A homage to the character created by Michael Connelly.
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The photos were of the smiling faces of young men who had dropped down into hell and come back to smile into the camera. #be
Kids are amazing, as long as they have the push in the right direction at home. #wsog
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid. #be
I think of my city as some kind of vast drain that pulls all bad things toward a spot where they swirl around in a deep concentration. #tm
The point is, I need the gun. I need the badge. Otherwise I'm out of balance. I need all of this. Okay? #tc
Your salvation is in the truth. Now more than ever. I can't help you without the truth. #dmtn
We don't have time. We lose momentum and we lose the case. #bv
Every task force has an acronym. To the public, acronyms mean action, large numbers of manpower applied to vital problems. #be
You want to be a good detective, go out and knock on doors. #br
Somebody could die in the time it took you to get all that out. #be
I carried a gun for so long that when I no longer had it on me it threw me off my balance. I was uneven. #tc
I am used to chasing killers motivated by greed or lust or any one of the big seven sins. Religious extremism isn't often on the list. #to
I cannot be surprised anymore by horrors people inflict on each other. But the horrors people save for themselves are a different story. #af
Things change. You just have to hold fast. #boschtv
In love and in loss the night is always sacred. #ll
After all my years working cases I am sure of one thing. There is no easy way to die. #9d
I don't read People magazine. I might not recognize a celebrity if they came up and bit me. #tm
In the places I have grown up I never got any food that was pink in the middle and I can't start enjoying it now. #steak #tn
It has been my experience that when you look back at a life, you use a magnifying glass. Everything is bigger, magnified. #wsog
Twin skyrockets were going off inside me. They were going different ways. One anger, one warmth. One led to the heart's dark abyss. The other led to Paradise Road. It led to the place where lost light came from. My lost light. I could choose one path but not both. #ll
Child cases left you knowing the world was full of lost light. #cob
The sound of applause is the same as the buzz of a bullet spinning past your ear in the dark. That randomness. That is L.A. #bi
I firmly believe and it has been my repeated experience that the answers to most cases are hidden in the details. #br
Something about being told to go home made me not go home. #ep
I have always been suspicious of science and technology. This puts me on the outside looking in, an analog man in a digital world, but my instincts have always served me well. For every great technological advancement, there are always people out there looking to misuse it. #rw