You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive.… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It’s a foulness… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All… — John Connolly Copy Share
He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small… — John Connolly Copy Share
I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo? — John Connolly Copy Share
“There is a price to be paid for everything, and it is a good idea to find out that price before you make the… — John Connolly Copy Share
“She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside” — John Connolly Copy Share
“When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases… — John Connolly Copy Share
“The presence in the living room called to her, summoning her in a hundred voices and none, a great dissonant harmony alien yet familiar,… — John Connolly Copy Share
“Warraner would rather have been the king of nothing than the prince of something.” — John Connolly Copy Share
“had been like wandering into the wrong carnival sideshow, the kind that left one feeling sick and slightly soiled.” — John Connolly Copy Share
“think you just like tethering goats.” “Well, be sure to tell me when your rope begins” — John Connolly Copy Share
“David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her,… — John Connolly Copy Share
“Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people were alive,… — John Connolly Copy Share
“Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours.… — John Connolly Copy Share
She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more… — John Connolly Copy Share
