343 Quotes by John Connolly

Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling.

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.

Books are constantly changing the world. If you’re a Christian, you have been changed by the Bible, by the word of God, or what was left of it when it was finally wrung through the hands of men. If you are a Muslim, look to the Koran; if a Communist, to Marx and Engels. Don’t you see? This world is constantly being altered by books.

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.

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

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.

It didn’t matter whether a thing existed or not. What mattered was the trouble caused by those who believed in its existence.

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

Sometimes we need our pain. We need it to call our own.