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I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so. — John Connolly

When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought. — John Connolly

A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings. — John Connolly

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. — John Connolly

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing. — John Connolly

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire. — John Connolly

Grave emotional injury might somehow have triggered a physical response, so that — John Connolly

They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer. — John Connolly

There's always someplace to go, even if it's only someplace else. — John Connolly

Books are not fixed objects: they transmit words and ideas. Their effect on each reader is unique. They put pictures in our minds. They take root. You — John Connolly

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way. — John Connolly

When I started in homicide, the Dead Sea was just sick. — John Connolly

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

You must be careful where you step.
And you must be ready for what you might find. — John Connolly

Aside. "How long will it take?" He was scared, and he wasn't pretending. "Not long," I said. "Not long at all." You — John Connolly

Regret, he now knew, was a useless emotion, the poor cousin of guilt. — John Connolly

Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions. — John Connolly

He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn't make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer. — John Connolly

Parker felt, not for the first time, as though he had wandered into a ghost story. — John Connolly

He would envy each and every living thing its freedom, even if it was only the freedom to die. — John Connolly

It was the kind of bar where everybody knew your name, as long as your name was 'Motherfucker'. — John Connolly

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published. — John Connolly

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning. — John Connolly

Meerlust Rubicon from South Africa, a suitably wintry red. — John Connolly

If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity. — John Connolly

His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His — John Connolly

All presented one face to the world, and kept another hidden. Nobody could survive in it otherwise. — John Connolly

She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside — John Connolly

In any given situation, the most difficult step is to reach a decision. Once a decision is made, control can be asserted. — John Connolly

I'm not in the business of facilitating the creation of martyrs. That's — John Connolly

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. — John Connolly

cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are. — John Connolly

She was night without the promise of dawn, darkness without light. — John Connolly

Where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them. — John Connolly

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist. — John Connolly

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo? — John Connolly

But there were some who went with her willingly, for there are other women who dream of lying with wolves. — John Connolly

Some revelations came only with the sound of dirt falling on a coffin:the ones that mattered, the ones that made for regrets. — John Connolly

Misery loved company, but damnation needed it. — John Connolly

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it. — John Connolly

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

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? — John Connolly

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be. — John Connolly

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree. — John Connolly

What's seldom is wonderful. — John Connolly

The US dollar is our currency but your problem. — John Connolly

They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The — John Connolly

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. — John Connolly

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

Because a man who is everybody's friend really has no friends at all. — John Connolly

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 — John Connolly

Mortality shadowed him like a falcon mantling its wings over dying prey. — John Connolly

The door, when I tried it, was locked, but a locked door is more the promise of security than security itself. — John Connolly

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. — John Connolly

Mum," said Christopher. "It's a demon. I don't think a poker will hurt it."

"It will where I'm going to put it," said Mrs. Mayer. — John Connolly

The day passed, a poor, sluggish thing that departed almost gratefully as night took its place. — John Connolly

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

First the girl, then the detective, now the wolf. The town was starting to unravel. — John Connolly

I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren't many. — John Connolly

His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness. — John Connolly

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself. — John Connolly

Their smiles never lit up their eyes, and — John Connolly

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. — Billy Connolly

Sometimes we need our pain. We need it to call our own. — John Connolly

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

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

If you listen hard enough, there's almost no such thing as silence: there's just noise that isn't very loud yet. — John Connolly

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms — John Connolly

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 — John Connolly

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. — John Connolly

Law and justice are not the same. — John Connolly

In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to. — John Connolly

It's a full-time job being homeless. It's a full-time job being poor. — John Connolly

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. — John Connolly

A discarded newspaper skimmed the sidewalk with a sound like the whisperings of a dead lover. — John Connolly

Er lips were as red as a stop light.. — John Connolly

Although both were lost in their own individual worlds, they shared the same space and time. — John Connolly

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

On the day of the funeral he had stood behind me in the rain and let the water wash over him, the drops falling from the brim of his hat like tears — John Connolly

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink. — John Connolly

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer — John Connolly

chased by the shadows of clouds. — John Connolly

You had to be reasonably wealthy and privileged to choose not to own stuff. He — John Connolly

They listen, the dead. They're always listening. What else is there for them to do? — John Connolly

He has his father's distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental. — John Connolly

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. — John Connolly

Love covers a multitude of sins. — John Connolly

He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths. — John Connolly

Lester Bargus was what people liked to call 'two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag. — John Connolly

Luck ran out, but smart was for life. — John Connolly

THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES, only patterns we do not see. — John Connolly

Okay, I said hoarsely as the blood left my head and headed south for the winter. — John Connolly

The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time. — John Connolly

I was a stranger in a familiar land. — John Connolly

He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression. — John Connolly

Know a man by his metaphors. — John Connolly

You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name. — John Connolly

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people, — John Connolly

Now that it's time to leave, I'm not sure I wan to go. — John Connolly

In the old house, the past hung in the air like motes of dust waiting to be illuminated by the sharp rays of memory — John Connolly