Top 100 John Connolly Quotes

#1. If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

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#2. On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

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#3. Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

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#4. I met Hamlet at a number 48B bus stop," said Mr. Gedeon. "He'd been there for some time, poor chap. At least eight buses had passed him by, and he hadn't taken any of them. It's to be expected, I suppose. It's in his nature.

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#5. When she was taken from me it was like the death of a world, an infinite number of futures coming to an end.

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#6. We're the world's leading producer of serial killers. It's a sign of sickness, is what it is. We're sick and weak and these killers are like a cancer inside us: the faster we grow, the quicker they multiply.

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#7. David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about stories and tales and the power that they wield over us, and that we in turn wield over them.

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#8. although his physician had advised him not to be overly concerned about forgetting facts and names, and he should begin to worry only if he stopped noticing that he couldn't remember them - if, in essence, he forgot that he was forgetting.

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#9. I could not live without seasons, for in seasons are reflected in the rhythms of our existence: of birth and maturity, or decline and decay, yet always with the promise of renewal for those who remain.

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#10. I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

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#11. What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

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#12. Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

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#13. Law and justice are not the same.

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#14. I think we've established that her son is crazy, and crazy cancels out clever every time.

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#15. Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

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#16. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

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#17. Paunch lapping at his belt like a pale tongue, peeping out from beneath the fabric of his golf shirt, hairy and somehow obscene. He was

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#18. For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was unsure whether I was a man waking from a dream of death or a dreamer entering a world of loss, a man dreaming of unhappiness or a man waking to grief.

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#19. If you're getting fucked, then you're getting fucked. But if you're getting fucked by someone who's smiling, then you're really getting fucked.

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#20. The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

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#21. Because a man who is everybody's friend really has no friends at all.

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#22. Angel and Louis in particular could have catalyzed a coma victim back to consciousness. He knew where Parker and the others were

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#23. I think Philip could spend an afternoon throwing puppies from the top of the Empire State and only stop when his arm got tired." "It's not the same as killing

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#24. Grave emotional injury might somehow have triggered a physical response, so that

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#25. Where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.

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#26. A technician who uses the term "glitch" is like a
Doctor who tells you you're suffering from a "thingy," except the doctor won't tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

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#27. A discarded newspaper skimmed the sidewalk with a sound like the whisperings of a dead lover.

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#28. What have you taken from me, and from what have you taken me?

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#29. Regret, he now knew, was a useless emotion, the poor cousin of guilt.

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#30. I slipped from present to past, sliding down the snake heads of memory into what was and what would never be again.

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#31. Be close to another human being at that instant was enough to convince one, however briefly, that something beyond understanding passed from the body with that final sigh, that some essence began its journey from this world to another.

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#32. trail during the last year, he has not managed the same trick with law enforcement. SPY has learned that Trump's 1988 sale of Resorts International to Merv Griffin is now the subject of two criminal investigations, one by the FBI. "We are looking

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#33. No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on each reader.

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#34. had been like wandering into the wrong carnival sideshow, the kind that left one feeling sick and slightly soiled.

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#35. I have found in the past that what passes for coincidence is usually life's way of telling you that you're not paying enough attention.

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#36. After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.

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#37. "Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly."
"really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

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#38. Warraner looked pleasantly surprised at the question, like a Mormon who had suddenly found himself invited into a house for coffee, cake, and a discussion of the wit and wisdom of Joseph Smith.

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#39. The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.

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#40. The presence in the living room called to her, summoning her in a hundred voices and none, a great dissonant harmony alien yet familiar, like a song that, once heard, insinuates itself into one's history, finding echoes in old melodies; a configuration once hidden, now revealed. Step,

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#41. Their smiles never lit up their eyes, and

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#42. Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.

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#43. Now that it's time to leave, I'm not sure I wan to go.

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#44. The stories were always looking for a way to be told, to be brought to life through books and reading. That was how they crossed over from their world into ours.

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#45. This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people,

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#46. There is a price to be paid for everything, and it is a good idea to find out that price before you make the agreement.

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#47. 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, not without a fight." "But Mother must have signed off on Vincent Garronne

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#48. He knew there were some who said that those who kept dogs had to resign themselves to their eventual loss because of the animals' relatively short lives. The trick - if "trick" was the right word - was to learn to love the spirit of the animal, and to recognize that it transferred itself from dog to

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#49. Funny, that. For so long Wormwood had desired the throne and then, when he'd had it, it hadn't been worth desiring after all.

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#50. I disliked the attitude of those who came up from the cities to hunt - their braggadocio, their faux machismo, the unpleasant transformative effect of guns and camouflage on otherwise unremarkable men, for in my experience it was generally men who hunted in this way.

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#51. One of the detectives was later heard to comment that Perry Reed was officially in more trouble than any other single human being he'd ever encountered in the course of his entire career....

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#52. He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths.

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#53. There were books everywhere: on the floors, on the stairs, on furniture both built for that purpose and constructed for other ends entirely. There were bookshelves in the main hallway, in the downstairs rooms, and in the upstairs rooms. There were even bookshelves in the bathroom and the kitchen.

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#54. She laughed loudly. It sounded to her husband like someone pushing a witch in a barrel over a waterfall. He pictured his wife in a barrel falling into very deep water, and this cheered him up a bit.

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#55. That was what death was like: trapped in a small space with a big weight holding you down for all eternity.

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#56. Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

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#57. Hold him till we get there, comrade," said another, who then appeared to reconsider. "Hang on, how big is he?"
The dwarf examined David. "Not very big," he said. "Dwarf and a half. Dwarf and two-thirds at most.

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#58. The child's face is close to her own now, but there is still no detail. It is a blur, a watercolor painting left out in the rain, the shades running, blending into one another. Only the eyes remain clear; black and hungry, jealous of life.

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#59. What's seldom is wonderful.

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#60. We haunt ourselves, I sometimes think; or, rather, we choose to be haunted. If there is a hole in our lives, then something will fill it. We invite it inside, and it accepts willingly.

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#61. Deborah Mercier couldn't have looked more like a WASP if her coat had been striped with yellow and her eyes had been on the sides of her head. She

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#62. the more of us there are, the more distant from each other we become. We're practically livin' on top of each other but we're further away from each other in every other way than we've ever been before.

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#63. They were called "rooms," but it was still a cell. A room you could leave when you chose to do so; a cell you could not.

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#64. The Crooked Man believed that whatever evil lay in men was there from the moment of their conception, and it was only a matter of discovering its nature in a child.

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#65. Can I ever come back here' he asked, and the Woodsman said something very strange in reply.
'Most people come back here,' he said, 'in the end

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#66. Sometimes he would forget her, but in forgetting he would remember her again, and the ache for her would return with a vengeance.

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#67. People who believe in buried gods,' said Louis.
'Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?'
'I'm Episcopalian. I believe in everything.

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#68. Flurries of snow obscured the view through the windows, but they were halfhearted and ultimately inconsequential, like the parting shots of a defeated army. Angel

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#69. No, all that David could think about was the head of the deer-girl, for her face rubbed against his as they rode, her warm blood smeared his cheek, and he saw himself reflected in the dark green mirrors of her eyes.

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#70. 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 his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.

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#71. 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.

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#72. was extraordinarily unhandsome, as though God had created the ugliest human being possible and then punched him in the face.

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#73. Are you sizeist?

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#74. one ignored the mundane at one's peril. After

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#75. (To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)

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#76. There's always someplace to go, even if it's only someplace else.

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#77. cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.

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#78. Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

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#79. A mobster who knew Trump socially said of him once, "He'd lie to you about what time of day it is - just for the practice.

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#80. One lies in truth,
One truth is lies.
One path is death,
One path is life.
One question asked,
The path to guide.

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#81. He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

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#82. In later life, people will be impressed that you can quote Shakespeare, and you will sound very intelligent. It's harder to quote trigonometry, or quadratic equations, and not half as romantic.

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#83. He was just a boy wearing pajamas, one slipper, and an old blue dressing gown under a stranger's jacket, and he did not belong anywhere but in his own bedroom.

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#84. There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature.

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#85. You still carrying an arsenal in the trunk of your car?"

"Why, you need something?"

"No, but if your car is hit by lightning I'll know where my lawn went.

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#86. Slow animals always become prey in the end.

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#87. It's a full-time job being homeless. It's a full-time job being poor.

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#88. I believe in evil because I have touched it, and it has touched me.

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#89. Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them.

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#90. It was like finding oneself under the scrutiny of a stuffed bird. His

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#91. The four ages of man, as far as Williamson was concerned, were confusion, anger, complacency, and grumpiness, but it was important to embrace them in the right order. The

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#92. The past never truly dies. It is there, waiting, just below the surface of the now.

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#93. lagophthalmos - a

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#94. Quayle himself was a surprisingly elegant man of sixty winters or more. (One might equally have said "sixty springs" or "sixty summers," but that would have been inaccurate, for Quayle was a man of bare trees and frozen water.)

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#95. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for a greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give.

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#96. There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before.

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#97. He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself.

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#98. [H]e looked like a real bruiser as he stepped from his car, his big sunglasses giving the impression that a large bug had evolved to the point that it could wear a suit.

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#99. He was just thinking aloud, ruling out possibilities by releasing them into the air, like canaries in the coal mine of his mind.

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#100. In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.

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