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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
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.
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Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.
— John Connolly
They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer.
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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.
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Aside. "How long will it take?" He was scared, and he wasn't pretending. "Not long," I said. "Not long at all." You
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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.
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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'.
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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
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In any given situation, the most difficult step is to reach a decision. Once a decision is made, control can be asserted.
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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.
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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.
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But there were some who went with her willingly, for there are other women who dream of lying with wolves.
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Some revelations came only with the sound of dirt falling on a coffin:the ones that mattered, the ones that made for regrets.
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Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.
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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
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
The door, when I tried it, was locked, but a locked door is more the promise of security than security itself.
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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
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.
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The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.
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Their smiles never lit up their eyes, and
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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.
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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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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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If you listen hard enough, there's almost no such thing as silence: there's just noise that isn't very loud yet.
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We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms
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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.
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In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.
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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.
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Er lips were as red as a stop light..
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Although both were lost in their own individual worlds, they shared the same space and time.
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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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Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.
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A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer
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chased by the shadows of clouds.
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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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Love covers a multitude of sins.
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Luck ran out, but smart was for life.
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THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES, only patterns we do not see.
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The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.
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I was a stranger in a familiar land.
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He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression.
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Know a man by his metaphors.
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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
Now that it's time to leave, I'm not sure I wan to go.
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