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
“We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms” — John Connolly Children 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
“We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere." "Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.” — John Connolly Funny Copy Share Image
“War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity.” — John Connolly Impunity Copy Share Image
“First the girl, then the detective, now the wolf. The town was starting to unravel.” — John Connolly Detective Copy Share Image
“The door, when I tried it, was locked, but a locked door is more the promise of security than security itself.” — John Connolly Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don’t know very much at all.” — John Connolly Clever Copy Share Image
“Frank tried to look like he was wrestling with his conscience, although he couldn't have found his conscience without a shovel and… — John Connolly Humor Copy Share Image
“Angel and Louis in particular could have catalyzed a coma victim back to consciousness. He knew where Parker and the others were” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that. — John Connolly Creativity 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
“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
“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
“All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which… — John Connolly Art 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
“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’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
“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
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“V-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, David explained that without slates on the roof, the rain would get in. In their way, they were just as… — John Connolly Rain Copy Share Image
“The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people,… — John Connolly Biology Copy Share Image
“That evening, as he got ready for bed, he heard his mother and father talking in their bedroom, and that was how… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Eventually the Woodsman spoke. ‘We all have our routines,’ he said softly. ‘But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome… — John Connolly Caged animal Copy Share Image
“There is a dark resource within all of us, a reservoir of hurt and pain and anger upon which we can draw… — John Connolly Dark Copy Share Image
“The trickster is an important archetype, a mischievous, sometimes malicious creature who survives the challenges of the world through deceit. Despite the… — John Connolly Archetype Copy Share Image
“Before she became 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
“Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them… — John Connolly Books Copy Share Image
“Henry VIII, for example, who was king of England from 1509 to 1547, ended his days surrounded by a great many young… — John Connolly Executions Copy Share Image
