Quotes from John Connolly

This," said Angel to Louis, "is the best fucking idea anyone ever had since, like, Columbus bought a boat." The two men, along with Parker, were sitting

Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in human flesh. —

gags old before they were told

He didn't trust people, especially children, who displayed signs of individuality.

Maybe this is common to all those who lose someone whom they have loved deeply. Making contact with another potential partner, another lover, becomes an act of reconstruction, a building not only of a relationship but also of oneself.

The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people, or dinosaurs, or small, single-celled organisms that decided one day to become larger, multicelled organisms so they could, at some point in the future, invent literature, painting, and annoying ring tones for cell phones.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?" said David. "I don't have much faith in anything," Roland replied. "Not even in myself.

If the mother was not married at either conception or birth, the details of the putative father could not be entered on the certificate without both his written consent and that of the mother. In other words, there was little to stop a woman

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.

The answer is that there is no plot: plots are for the stage alone. There is no plan, no manifest destiny. There is only a series of events, some connected, some discrete, and this will be called a life.

wants to accept that someone close might have taken his or her own life. Too much blame accrues to those left behind for it to be accommodated so easily.

It is like exchanging butterflies for moths.

His old identity has been discarded, and his new identity is to be found only on the screen. In the expanse between these two poles lies the reality of the self.

Whether his prayers were in vain or not, he didn't care. It was the effort that counted. But he knew that, somewhere, those prayers were being heard.

Al final, tu único amigo eres tú mismo porque los demás, llegado el momento, te dejarán todos en la estancada. Al final, todos estamos solos.

God, they were only children when they went off to fight, virgins, and virgin children had no call to be holding guns and firing them at other children. When he looked at his grandchildren, and saw how cosseted and naïve they were despite the air of knowingness that they maintained, he found it impossible to visualize them as he had once been.

I read somewhere that the New Orleans citizenry bought fewer copies of the New York Times than any other city in the United States, although they made up for it by buying more formal wear than anywhere else. If you're going out to formal dinners every evening, you don't get much time to read the New York Times.

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

He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself.

Whenever someone uses the word 'glitch,' which means a fault of some kind in a system, you should immediately be suspicious, because it means that they don't know what it is. A technician who uses the term 'glitch' is like a doctor 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.

You must learn to control your impulses,' he said. 'A sword wants to be used. It wants to draw blood. That is why it was forged, and it has no other purpose in the world. If you do not control it, then it will control you.

A veces necesitamos nuestro dolor. Lo necesitamos para considerarlo nuestro.

He has never been shouted at so quietly.

As he listened to her, David wondered again how Jonathan could have betrayed this girl. He must have been so angry and so sad, and that anger and sadness had consumed him.