343 Quotes by John Connolly

He had always worried about her when he was in school, because if he was away from her then he had no control over her existence.

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

He had counted so carefully. He had abided by the rules, but life had cheated.

She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be faced.

You've just inherited rudeness. We've had to work at it.

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

As for dying, he didn't believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective reality instead of an abstract concept.

Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

The law wasn’t a great business to be in if one valued truth, or even justice.