But I feared more the death of others. I did not want to lose them, I worried about them while they were alive. Sometimes I think I concerned myself so much with the possibility of their loss that I never truly took pleasure in the fact of their existence.

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quotes

Anyway, so he bounces in on his white horse like a big perfumed tea cozy, getting involved in affairs that are none of his business, and next thing you know she wakes up and – ooooh! – was she in a bad mood.

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From high in the air, London would look just like a model, with toy houses and miniature trees on tiny streets. Maybe that was the only way you could drop the bombs: by pretending that it wasn’t real, that nobody would burn and die when they exploded below.

— John Connolly

Stupidity, he knew, did not recognize boundaries of color or creed. But he had come to believe that, like driving a car, people should have to pass a test before being allowed access to the Internet.

— John Connolly

Mrs. Abernathy frightened him, the way strong women will often frighten weak men.

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They weren’t evil, or vicious, or cruel. They were just bored people with too much time on their hands, and such people will, in the end, get up to mischief.

— John Connolly

Some words can only be spoken to those for whom we feel passionately and deeply, just as some silences can only be shared by lovers.

— John Connolly

God would even have forgiven Judas Iscariot, had he asked for His forgiveness. Judas wasn’t damned for betraying Christ. He was damned for despairing, for rejecting the possibility that he might be forgiven for what he had done.

— John Connolly

After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.

— John Connolly

Are you sizeist?

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They were so old, and so strange, that they had found a kind of existence independent of the pages they occupied.

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In the end, we’ll all face oblivion.

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There are places where years have no meaning, where only a hair’s breadth of history separates the present from the past. Standing there on that bleak hillside, a young man in a place where other young men had died, it was possible to feel a connection to that past, a sense that in some place further back on the the stream of time these young men were still fighting, and still dying, that they would always be fighting this battle, in this place, over and over again, with ever the same end.

— John Connolly

A faint mist hung over the streets, creating penumbrae around the streetlights like the halos of saints, and making a dreamscape of the skyline.

— John Connolly

Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

— John Connolly

Cresil leaned forward, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints of hate.

— John Connolly

It’s good that you have someone that cares for you. It doesn’t make it easier, but it sure doesn’t make it harder.

— John Connolly

Badness lingered, and if blood penetrated deep enough into wood, the stain became near permanent. The past gave substance to the present, and all old places were storehouses of memory: the more ancient the site, the greater the accumulation, and bygone atrocities called to new.

— John Connolly

Suddenly, it seemed as if David was surrounded by short, unhappy men muttering about “rights” and “liberties” and having enough of “this sort of thing.

— John Connolly

Most criminals are kind of dumb, which is why they’re criminals. If they weren’t criminals, they’d be doing something else to screw up people’s lives, like running elections in Florida.

— John Connolly

There appeared to be only two types of business in the town: everybody’s business, and business that was not yet everybody’s but soon would be once the local gossips had got to work on it.

— John Connolly
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