For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be. — John Connolly Adult Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles. — John Connolly Anyone Copy Share Image
“Mortality shadowed him like a falcon mantling its wings over dying prey.” — John Connolly Death Copy Share Image
“He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself.” — John Connolly Enshadowed Copy Share Image
“They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The” — John Connolly Bad food Copy Share Image
“In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.” — John Connolly Regret Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy. — John Connolly Absence Copy Share Image
“You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.” — John Connolly Fractions Copy Share Image
I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off… — John Connolly Bad luck Copy Share Image
“I slipped from present to past, sliding down the snake heads of memory into what was and what would never be again.” — John Connolly Memory Copy Share Image
Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got… — John Connolly Band Copy Share Image
“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even… — John Connolly David Copy Share Image
My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest… — John Connolly Business 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 Life Copy Share Image
“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.” — John Connolly Disturbance Copy Share Image
“And Frank was right: they were both fathers who had lost children, and somehow they had come through that loss—not without ongoing… — John Connolly Children Copy Share Image
“The beam caught the bowed head of Angel. He glanced up into Bobby Sciorra’s eyes and smiled. Sciorra looked puzzled for a… — John Connolly Too late 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 Death 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 Front door Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished… — John Connolly Brave Copy Share Image
“trail during the last year, he has not managed the same trick with law enforcement. SPY has learned that Trump’s 1988 sale… — John Connolly Criminal investigation 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 Answers 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
“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
“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.” — John Connolly Ambition Copy Share Image
I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so. — John Connolly Been hurt Copy Share Image
“War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity.” — John Connolly Impunity Copy Share Image
“We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere." "Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.” — John Connolly Funny 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
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
“It bore an expression he’d seen before: love poisoned by disappointment.” — John Connolly Disappointment Copy Share Image
“It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.” — John Connolly Homeless Copy Share Image
He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal,… — John Connolly Class Copy Share Image
“Death does not come quickly for Babe. Death pilfers Babe piece by piece, pound by pound. But not before Babe conspires with… — John Connolly Death Copy Share Image
I don't think," he said, "that a vicar is supposed to beat a bishop to death, or even back to death." Mr.… — John Connolly Beats Copy Share Image
“She might suspect it, but I haven’t met a mother yet who’d admit her child was out where the buses don’t run,… — John Connolly Children Copy Share Image
“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on… — John Connolly Book Copy Share Image
“I met Hamlet at a number 48B bus stop,” said Mr. Gedeon. “He’d been there for some time, poor chap. At least… — John Connolly Buses Copy Share Image
“There is a price to be paid for everything, and it is a good idea to find out that price before you… — John Connolly Agreement Copy Share Image
“Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it… — John Connolly Contentment Copy Share Image
