Lottie

“Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside. Earl Briggs sits on my jury, Gloria Dayton, too. They are there with Katie and Sandy, my mother, my father, and soon Legal Siegel as well. Those I have loved and those I have hurt. Those who bless me and those who haunt me. My gods of guilt. Every day I carry on and I carry them close. Every day I step into the well before them and I argue my case.”
― Michael Connelly, The Gods of Guilt

“You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.”
― Michael Connelly, Lost Light

“What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.”
― Michael Connelly, Trunk Music

“But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer...”
― Michael Connelly, The Black Echo