She was on a roll and everybody knew it. It was what cops and prosecutors called being in the tube. It was a surfing reference. It meant they had ridden the case into the water tunnel where everything was going smoothly and perfectly and was surrounding them in glorious balance.

— Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly Quotes

All around them the cacophony of greed carried on in its most glorious and extreme excess.

— Michael Connelly

Los Angeles: there was no rush hour because every hour was rush hour.

— Michael Connelly

In the law of innocence, for every man not guilty of a crime, there is a man out there who is. And to prove true innocence, the guilty man must be found and exposed to the world.

— Michael Connelly

But then the world changes and your own DNA can unlock everything and secrets aren’t secrets anymore.

— Michael Connelly

A preliminary hearing is a routine step on the way to a trial. It is one hundred percent the prosecution’s show. The state is charged with presenting its case to the court and the judge then rules on whether there is sufficient evidence to take it forward to a jury trial. This isn’t the reasonable doubt threshold. Not even close. The judge only has to decide if a preponderance of evidence supports the charges. If so, then the next stop is a full-blown trial.

— Michael Connelly

The only way to prove I didn’t do it is to prove who did,” I said. “That’s the law of innocence.

— Michael Connelly

The intrusion of the government into our lives is pervasive. Where do we make a stand? I’m making mine right here.

— Michael Connelly

When it came to opening statements, I was from the Legal Siegel school of law. He always said, save your powder, meaning less is more; don’t reveal your case or its surprises until it’s time to present your evidence.

— Michael Connelly

As with many of my young male clients from the south side of the city, prison was an anticipated part of life for McGinley. He grew up knowing he was going. The only questions were when and for how long and whether he would live long enough to make it there.

— Michael Connelly

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

— Michael Connelly

I felt like he was another one who’d never had a shot at anything but thug life in the first place. He’d never known his father and had dropped out of school in the sixth grade.

— Michael Connelly

Donovan stared at the car silently, contemplating it the way a matador looks at the bull he is going to fight.

— Michael Connelly

Anybody who relished the idea of being a juror was blue ink all the way.

— Michael Connelly

That’s the problem here. It’s Sunday. Everybody wants to go home. Play golf. Sell houses. Watch the ballgame. Nobody cares one way or the other. Just going through the motions.

— Michael Connelly

There was no going back to repair what had happened. You can’t patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

— Michael Connelly

The citizens want their police to protect them, to keep the plague from their eyes, from their doors. But those same John Q.’s are the first to stare wide-eyed and point the finger of outrage when they see close up exactly what the job they’ve given the cops entails.

— Michael Connelly

It’s an angry world,” Bosch said.

— Michael Connelly

It sometimes seemed to her as though the biggest barricades in the so-called justice system were on the inside, before you even got out the door.

— Michael Connelly

Sir, I can’t talk to you without a mask,” Moore said loudly. “Go get a mask.

— Michael Connelly

Did you ever hear what J. Edgar Hoover said about justice?” she asked. “He probably said a lot, but I don’t recall any of it offhand.” “He said that justice is incidental to law and order. I think he was right.

— Michael Connelly
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