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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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I believe that humans will sink to the lowest depths if the right opportunity presents itself. #wsog

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The chances of clearing a homicide diminish by almost half each day if you don't solve it in the first forty-eight hours. #bv

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Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. #tkot

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I'm an orphan. I never knew my father and my mother was murdered when I was a kid. There never was any arrest made. That's my mission. #lc

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I knew that no matter what I had done or caused to happen until this point in my life, she would be my ticket to redemption. #9d

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Cop killers are always motherfuckers, no questions asked. #af

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Bullshit is bullshit, even from cops. #boschtv

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Las Vegas. Beneath the veneer of glitz and money and energy and sex beats a dark heart. #tm

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I hate the idea of acting desperately. A move like that puts the following move in someone else's hands. It means losing control. #br

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You can believe you are an outsider. But the innocence of a child will give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself. #tn

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Things change. You just have to hold fast. #boschtv

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Call it justice or the need to know. Call it the need to believe that those who are evil will not remain hidden in darkness forever. #br

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True-blue gamblers say it isn't the winning and losing. It is the anticipation. The few seconds of waiting and hoping that charges them. #tm

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The rule is that when you are drawing blanks on a case, then everybody is a suspect. #tcr

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Everybody counts or nobody counts. #tc

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The truths I learned hold me down like chains in a dark room, an underworld of ghosts and victims that slither around me like snakes. #tn

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I'd never sell out a partner. Even a dead one. #tkot

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It is like anything else. You fall out of practice and you lose your edge. I don't want that. #9d

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Time has a way of changing things. It's a circle. It takes power away and gives it to those who once had none. #cob

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Lawyers argue over interpretations and theories and procedures. Nothing seems to move in a straight line. Justice becomes a labyrinth. #tr

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It's been my experience that people will kill for any reason and no reason at all. #wsog

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A homicide case is like a shark. It's gotta keep moving or it drowns. #af

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Things change. #be

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I have faith and I have a mission. Call it blue religion, call it whatever you like. It's the belief that this won't just go by. #cob

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I felt like I was closing in on something. Like when a child can't see something in the dark but is sure it is there just the same. #ll

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There will be another sunset tomorrow. If I am still here to see it. #ds

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I grabbed the parking ticket off the windshield. I got in and threw it over my shoulder into the backseat for good luck. #ll

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She went from zero to sixty on the anger speedometer in about five seconds. #ll

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Get off your ass and go knock on doors. #boschtv Free download. Print it out and hang it in your office, kitchen or wherever you need it. 😀

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The main attribute a good watcher needs is a comfort with silence. Some people are compelled to fill the void. I never am. #tr

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I love the city most at night. It is in this dark slipstream that I believe I move most freely. Behind the cover of shadows. #bi

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Stop undercutting yourself, there will always be people out there to do it for you. #br

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Not that I don't believe that the advantages made are good for the world, but I have a detective's suspicion about early adopters and don't buy into the cult-like belief that all scientific discoveries are beneficial. #rw

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Just remember, people can change their addresses, but they can't change who they are. #cob

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Sometimes the walls are thin and kids are the best detectives. They are masterful interpreters of the human vibe. #tn

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I heard Christmas music playing from an open window somewhere. It was an instrumental, slow and heavy on the saxophone. It took me a moment to recognize it as "I’ll Be Home for Christmas". I stood there on the walkway and listened until the end of the song. #ce

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Out of the black and into the blue.

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