Quotes by John Connolly

Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

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.

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.

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.

A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.

But dont they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.They? Who are they?I dont know. Just people.Thats what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. All is fair. The end justifies the means. Is that what you believe?

But he was wounded, and tired, and winter was still upon him.

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

I used to think this was all about good and evil,” said Rickett, “but it’s not.”“No?”“There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It’s a foulness that’s right at the heart of existence, born with the stuff of the universe. It’s in the decay to which all things tend. It is, and it always will be, but in dying we leave it behind.”“And while we’re alive?”“We set our souls against it, and our saints and angels, too.” He patted Parker on the shoulder. “Especially the destroying ones.

Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

I feel that Ill be buried in Ireland and dont think Ill ever live in the U.S. Im not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.