Echo Park Quotes
"You got to go where they send you, when you’re a dozer-drivin’ man."
"Every one of them was somebody’s daughter. Every one of them counted."
"If Waits can help me bring Marie Gesto home to her parents, then I’m on your side."
"You take it all in context of the full name and—The little fox waits. The young fox waits. The trickster waits."
"A young fox would be a small fox. In the description Mr. Waits is small in stature."
"I’m not angry. I’m happy. Ask my partner—this is me when I’m happy."
"There is obviously not going to be enough time for me to do a full psychological. I’ll only be scratching the surface."
"Spoken like the Zen master of Homicide."
"I can always tell. I can always smell it on a woman, when she likes pussy."
"You have an addictive personality, Detective. Murder cases, cigarettes, maybe even the alcohol I smell coming out of your pores. You’re not that hard to read."
"I’m saying that this guy, whoever he really is, could have gone to the DMV thirteen, fourteen, years ago to set up a false ID."
"It was like a Hieronymus Bosch painting."
"I saw the city burning, that’s what I saw."
"It’s just that his profile doesn’t support someone who would cooperate at this stage of the game, who would tell you about the other crimes."
"She’s right here with me. Just like all the others. Right here with me."
"I'm not getting anywhere in the department. I might as well go where I'm respected and my skills are valued."
"Educating voters is what a campaign is all about."
"Beachwood Canyon was a quiet neighborhood on the slope of the Santa Monica Mountains between Hollywood and Los Feliz."
"The sign was eventually shortened and now advertised a state of mind more than anything else."
"I don’t think it was a smart thing to call the media out on this."
"There’s something sacred about it. It was hallowed ground."
"We’re getting a read. We’re above normal levels."
"If you make an attempt to run, these officers will shoot you down."
"Not too much farther, as though he were a nature guide leading them to a secluded waterfall."
"What was it the great man wrote about sleeping the big sleep?"
"I already did, Bosch. Okay? Look, I know you don’t like the media presence but it is an open society we live in and the public has a right to know what is going on here."
"This was where Marie Gesto traded menial work in the stables for time on horseback."
"I think about all the cases you have worked. How many are like this one? How many are like Marie?"
"The path became narrower as the trees and brush encroached and the trail evolved from the well-trodden to the seldom used."
"We are here on a grim duty, to find and collect the remains of Marie Gesto."
"I am going to be with my client at all times."
"I don’t care. If I ruin my shoes I’ll write them off as a business expense."
"I don’t think she minds. What was it the great man wrote about sleeping the big sleep? About not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell?"
"By being an unfit mother she abandoned him to this deeply flawed institution where he was trapped until he was old enough to walk away on his own."
"He was killing his mother over and over again."
"He must have liked them and I guess they liked him back."
"I’m just worried about you, that’s all."
"There’s no longer time, Mr. Osborne. We have to move."
"It’s vitally important that we be allowed to review that file immediately."
"He probably never knew what it was like to be wanted or loved."
"You don’t want that on your conscience, Mr. Osborne, and neither do we. That’s why we are on the same team."
"You look like you’ve seen a ghost, Bosch."
"I’m going to check it out first, then call backup."
"He picked a good place for the secret castle," he said.
"Medieval castles were built on hilltops for the same reason."
"Don’t worry about me. Worry about yourself."
"Yeah, I have noticed. I think it’s because when we were face-to-face he was Waits. When he started shooting, he was Waits. And it just sort of stuck."
"Look, all we have is a white van," he said.
"We might be lying on the roof. I don’t want your fancy federal suit to get dirty."
"Fuck you, Bosch. There is no connection."
"You going to Deputy Doolan’s funeral, Lieutenant?"
"Are you saying that I did this, that I set all of this up, for T. Rex Garland?"
"Detective Osani, could you go get us a couple bottles of water?"
"It’s all bullshit," he said out loud in the car.
"Everybody's got choices and you made the wrong one. Problem is, we don't pay for our mistakes alone. We take people down with us."
"Good decision. Rule number one: Never talk to the cops."
"Just come out and bring your gun. Right now."
"I was trying to help him. But that’s all I’m going to say."
"I don’t want Jessie or my family involved."
"I thought you more than anybody would know that."
"I want another million dollars and it will be well worth it to you to give it to me."
"I’m not saying anything until I talk to a lawyer."
"It’s a dangerous job. I thought you more than anybody would know that."