“If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“One lies in truth, One truth is lies. One path is death, One path is life. One question asked, The path to… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“through life in his vibrant plumage, advertising his presence, hiding nothing, but when he closed his front door behind him the artificial… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“I could not live without seasons, for in seasons are reflected in the rhythms of our existence: of birth and maturity, or… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“And I knew, too, that to live a life like Walter Cole’s—a life almost mundane in the pleasure it derived from small… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a man to be reunited with his dogs in the next… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“ daddy and it contained within it the prospect of living and the hope of dying, of endings and beginnings, of love… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Every individual spends a lifetime trying to disprove Copernicus by placing him- or herself at the heart of existence, but a small… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
42. Most people will spend their lives doing jobs that they don't particularly enjoy, and will eventually save up enough money to… — 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
This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you the truth about the world to which you so desperately want to return. It is a place of… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“The presence in the living room called to her, summoning her in a hundred voices and none, a great dissonant harmony alien… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“In later life, people will be impressed that you can quote Shakespeare, and you will sound very intelligent. It's harder to quote… — 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
