Quotes from John Connolly

one ignored the mundane at one's peril. After

The world is going mad," she said. "The world was always mad. It just wasn't quite this frightening for most of us.

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

He'd eat it, though, and not just because he was hungry. He'd have eaten it even if Hayley Conyer had force-fed him caviar and foie gras during their meeting. He'd eat it because his wife had prepared it for him.

and favored an obscure French perfume that reminded Kirk of dead chanteuses. Madlyn still saw the ghosts

discovered that silence made a lot of people uneasy, and they would often say something to break it, thus revealing themselves in the process.

They were both an escape from reality and an alternative reality themselves.

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. —Deuteronomy 12:3

his obligations were few. They could, in fact, be boiled down to one: to find the one who had taken his wife and child from this world and tear him apart.

Meerlust Rubicon from South Africa, a suitably wintry red.

One has to hope, you know?' 'Yes,' said Parker. 'I know.

I've started to believe that most people do what they think is right. The problems arise when what they do is right for themselves, but not what's right for others.

There would always be too few people in this world who cared enough to put themselves at risk for the sake of strangers, and too many who sought to inflict pain on the familiar and nameless alike.

were indeed the case that behind every great fortune lay a great crime—and this was as true of the New World as of the Old, if

I've found silence helps, but that requires patience. Uncomfortable with silence, the majority of individuals will seek to fill it, and unburdening has a lot in common with downhill skiing: once you start, it's very hard to stop.

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away . . . William Hughes Mearns, "Antigonish

What have you taken from me, and from what have you taken me?

even if she saw a ghost, she still wouldn't believe it.

VÅ¡ichni pÃ…â"¢edvádíme svÄ›tu jednu tváÃ…â"¢ a druhou skrýváme. Jinak bychom nedokázali pÃ…â"¢ežít.

he would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books.

El jefe de personal se hacía llamar jefe de recursos humanos y, como los jefes de personal de todo el mundo, era una de las personas menos afables que uno podía encontrarse.

Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them.

knew that his God—for each man has his own God—let him wander there sometimes, perhaps with the ghost of one of the many dogs that had kept him company through his life yapping at his heels, flushing the birds from the rushes and chasing them for the joy of it. My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a

Dr. Ryley. Mrs. Schneider looked a little surprised, then took on the role of hostess, pouring my coffee, offering sugar, cream. She pressed cookies on me