John Connolly Quotes
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?
You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.
We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).
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, they were really rather good fun.
They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.
Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?
I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.
. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.
My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.
Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.
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 peering through the curtains before the show begins.
She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light.
...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.
“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even in myself.”
Why did you shoot him?""You weren't around, " I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.
You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.
If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.
A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.
It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.
I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.
After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.
There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.
The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.
If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.
Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.
After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.
Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one’s view of them.
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away, . There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.
We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms