“and favored an obscure French perfume that reminded Kirk of dead chanteuses. Madlyn still saw the ghosts,” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression.” — John Connolly Language Copy Share Image
Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part. — John Connolly Being scared Copy Share Image
“When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.” — John Connolly Clever Copy Share Image
“think you just like tethering goats.” “Well, be sure to tell me when your rope begins” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms” — John Connolly Children Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church was not short of lawyers, especially in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as anyone who had dealt with the archdiocese… — John Connolly Religion Copy Share Image
“He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn’t make you live longer, but just made it feel as… — 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 Grandfather Copy Share Image
You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even… — 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 Distrust Copy Share Image
“Then again, maybe nostalgia was an understandable response to a world that appeared to be going all to hell, as long as… — John Connolly Nostalgia 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
“And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the… — 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 Life 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 Choices 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 Evil Copy Share Image
“The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks… — John Connolly Compassion 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 Evil 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
“I disliked the attitude of those who came up from the cities to hunt—their braggadocio, their faux machismo, the unpleasant transformative effect… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of… — John Connolly Books Copy Share Image
“It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is… — John Connolly Adult life 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 Children Copy Share Image
“The hatred for ex-soldiers on the part of those who had not fought was something I could not understand. They wanted us… — John Connolly Peace Copy Share Image
“Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people… — John Connolly Books Copy Share Image
“Oh, such promises we make in the heat of our passion, when the breath catches in the throat and the belly trembles.… — John Connolly Vows Copy Share Image
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can… — John Connolly Books Copy Share Image
“Tony Fulci reached out and took Dale’s phone from his hand. It was an old flip-top, and Tony stared at it curiously,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“It bore an expression he’d seen before: love poisoned by disappointment.” — John Connolly Disappointment Copy Share Image
They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing. — John Connolly Angel Copy Share Image
