The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story. Michael Connelly
To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

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Unknown
At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving...
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Thomas Hardy
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
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Osamu Dazai
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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Khaled Hosseini
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Demosthenes
More Quotes By Michael Connelly
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.")
Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
You know what my father said about innocent clients?. . He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life. . He said there is no...
All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bulletproof. He needed to build himself and his life so that he was invulnerable, so that nothing and no one could ever get to him....
