343 Quotes by John Connolly

Those whom you care about—lovers, children—will fall by the wayside, and your love will not be enough to save them.

a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like aDoctor 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.

It was human nature. You didn't give everything away; if you did, you would have nothing left.There were those who took the view that there was a liberation in the act of confession, but mostly they tended to be the ones who were listening, and not the ones confessing. The only full confessions occur on deathbeds; all others are partial, modified.

And even if what he learned did not aid him in his investigation, and he succeeded only in relieving her of its weight, this would be sufficient, because sometimes the service asked of us is just to listen.

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

Of their friendship, Montaigne wrote: ‘If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.’Louis touched his fingers to the page.Yes, he thought. Yes.

His eyes fixed on the boy. David saw them narrow, as if the bowman could not quite understand what was being said or what was happing to him as he knelt in the snow, his blood pooling around him.Then, slowly, they grew wide and calm as death gave him an explanation.

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....

It was the kind of bar where everybody knew your name, as long as your name was ‘Motherfucker’.