John Connolly Quotes

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• For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
• Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.
• I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to…
• You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.
• You mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again'…
• Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
• It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown…
• 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 people,…
• He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read,…
• Each man dreams his own heaven.
• He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one…
• I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?
• I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I…
• And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always…
• . . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David…
• Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real…
• The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who…
• They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.
• I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.
• This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must…

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