John Connolly Quotes

• For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

  John Connolly

  Children, Lying, Adults

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• 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. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

  John Connolly

  Children, Book, Land

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

  John Connolly

  Reading, Thinking, Views

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• 42. Most people will spend their lives doing jobs that they don't particularly enjoy, and will eventually save up enough money to stop doing those jobs just in time to start dying instead. Don't be one of those people. There's a difference between living, and just surviving. Do something that you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It really is that simple. And that hard.

  John Connolly

  Jobs, Simple, Differences

  John Connolly (2011). “The Infernals: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

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  Blow, Soul, Ashes

  John Connolly (2011). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• Este mundo está lleno de cosas rotas: corazones rotos, promesas rotas, personas rotas.

  John Connolly

  Heart, People, Broken

  John Connolly (2008). “The Unquiet: A Thriller”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Hay personas cuyos ojos debes evitar, cuya atención no debes atraer hacia ti. Son criaturas extrañas y parasitarias, almas perdidas que buscan estirarse a través del abismo y establecer un contacto fatal con el flujo cálido y constante de la humanidad. Viven en el dolor y sólo existen para infligir ese dolor a los demás. Una mirada al azar, la prolongación momentánea de una mirada, es suficiente para darles la excusa que buscan. A veces, es mejor mantener los ojos en la cuneta por miedo a que, al levantar la vista, puedas vislumbrarlos, formas negras contra el sol, y quedarte ciego para siempre.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Eye, People

  John Connolly (2015). “The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

  John Connolly

  Doe, Prove

  John Connolly (2010). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

  John Connolly

  Running, Scared, Problem

  John Connolly (2005). “Nocturnes”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.

  John Connolly

  Animal, Comfort, Purpose

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

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  Angel, Sides, Good Things

  John Connolly (2015). “The Reapers: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Each man dreams his own heaven.

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  Dream, Men, Heaven

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.

  John Connolly

  Sorry, Grief, Heart

  John Connolly (2012). “The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet”, p.1300, Simon and Schuster

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• Sueño sueños oscuros. Sueño con una figura que avanza por el bosque, con niños que vuelan a su paso, con mujeres jóvenes que lloran a su llegada. Sueño con nieve y hielo, con ramas desnudas y sombras de luna. Sueño con bailarinas que flotan en el aire, que pisan con ligereza incluso en la muerte, y mi propio dolor no es más que un débil eco de su sufrimiento mientras corro. Mi sangre es negra sobre la nieve, y los bordes del mundo se platean con la luz de la luna. Corro hacia la oscuridad, y él me espera. Sueño en blanco y negro, y sueño con él. Sueño con Caleb, que no existe, y tengo miedo.

  John Connolly

  Running, Dream, Pain

  John Connolly (2015). “Dark Hollow: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

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  Fun, Talking, Class

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being.

  John Connolly

  Song, Real, Lying

  "The John Connolly Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts".

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• We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

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  May, Immortal, Knows

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.

  John Connolly

  Dream, Eye, Men

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

  John Connolly

  Smart, Luck, Ran

  John Connolly (2012). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that?

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  Believe, Understanding, Suffering

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• Me habían herido, y en respuesta había actuado violentamente, destruyendo un poco de mí misma cada vez que lo hacía.

  John Connolly

  Hurt, Littles, Destroying

  John Connolly (2015). “The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Home, Doctors, Suffering

  John Connolly (2009). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Grief, Loss

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• Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?

  John Connolly

  Boys, Groups, Joining

  John Connolly (2011). “The Infernals: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, Simon and Schuster

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• It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.

  John Connolly

  Morning, Winter, Clouds

  John Connolly (2012). “The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet”, p.899, Simon and Schuster

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