Quotes from John Connolly

They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer.

Now that it's time to leave, I'm not sure I wan to go.

He had a love of books, for in books was recorded the knowledge of all those who had gone before him.

The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.

It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.

There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature.

Names did have a power, if they were used in the right way.

You did it because you wanted to. No one can make you do evil. You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer

Men and men, men and women, whatever the permutation, in the end one partner usually feels more than the other and that partner usually suffers for it.

Prepare for the worst and you won't be disappointed.

She was night without the promise of dawn, darkness without light.

You still carrying an arsenal in the trunk of your car?" "Why, you need something?" "No, but if your car is hit by lightning I'll know where my lawn went.

I have found in the past that what passes for coincidence is usually life's way of telling you that you're not paying enough attention.

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

The child's face is close to her own now, but there is still no detail. It is a blur, a watercolor painting left out in the rain, the shades running, blending into one another. Only the eyes remain clear; black and hungry, jealous of life.

He understood the half-life of hope: it is not despair that destroys us, but its opposite. Hope is the winding, despair the unwinding. Despair brings with it the possibility of an ending. Taken to the extreme, its logical conclusion is death. But hope sustains. It can be exploited. Ormsby

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths.

her lips were as red as a stop light..

His grandfather used to say that there were angels whom devils would greet on the street. If that were true, thought Parker, then let the devils raise their hats to him. It would just make them easier to identify and destroy.

In general it's a good idea to avoid people who take themselves too seriously. As individuals, we have only so much seriousness to go round, and people who take themselves very seriously don't have enough seriousness left over to take other people seriously. Instead they tend to look down on them, and are secretly pleased when they get stuff wrong, because they just prove to the too-serious types that they were right not to take them too seriously to begin with.

Good will attract good to itself, and those involved will unite toward a common goal. Evil, in turn, draws evil men, but they will never truly act as one. They will always be distrustful, always jealous. Ultimately, they seek power for themselves alone, and for that reason they will always fall apart at the end.