Stephen Fernbach

“Most criminal defendants talk their way into prison. Few talk their way out. The best single piece of advice I have ever given a client is to just keep your mouth shut. Talk to no one about your case, not even your own wife. You keep close counsel with yourself. You take the nickel and you live to fight another day.”
― Michael Connelly, The Crossing

“You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong.”
― Michael Connelly, The Harry Bosch Novels, Volume 2: The Last Coyote / Trunk Music / Angels Flight

“The house in Silverlake was dark, its windows as empty as a dead man’s eyes. It was an old California Craftsman with a full front porch and two dormer windows set on the long slope of the roof. But no light shone behind the glass, not even from above the doorway. Instead, the house cast a foreboding darkness about it that not even the glow from the streetlight could penetrate. A man could be standing there on the porch and Bosch knew he probably wouldn’t be able to see him. ‘You”
― Michael Connelly, The Concrete Blonde