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1. "Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur." ~ John Connolly

2. "These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside. They were both an escape from reality and an alternative reality themselves. They were so old, and so strange, that they had found a kind of existence independent of the pages they occupied. The world of the old tales existed parallel to ours, but sometimes the walls separating the two became so thing and brittle that the two worlds started to blend into each other. That was when the trouble started. That was when the bad things came. That was when the Crooked Man began to appear to David." ~ John Connolly

3. "And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart." ~ John Connolly

4. "I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...''...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.''...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck." ~ John Connolly

5. "The door, when I tried it, was locked, but a locked door is more the promise of security than security itself." ~ John Connolly

6. "If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man." ~ John Connolly

7. "Astronomers who were recently sifting through thousands of signals from Sagittarius B2, a big dust cloud at the center of our galaxy, found a substance there called ethyl formate, which is the chemical responsible for the flavor of raspberries, and the smell of rum, the drink popular with pirates. Therefore, our galaxy tastes a bit of raspberries and smells of rum, which is nice." ~ John Connolly

8. "They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer." ~ John Connolly

9. "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." ~ John Connolly

10. "One lies in truth,One truth is lies.One path is death,One path is life.One question asked,The path to guide." ~ John Connolly

11. "I had met plain women, even ugly women, whose physical shortcomings had been remedied by the spirit within, their decency and kindness even effecting a kind of transformation upon them, softening the bluntness of their features. This was not such a woman. The blight was inside her, and no restyling of her hair, no careful use of cosmetics, no pretty dresses could have made her any less unsettling than she was." ~ John Connolly

12. "When she was taken from me it was like the death of a world, an infinite number of futures coming to an end." ~ John Connolly

13. "Some revelations came only with the sound of dirt falling on a coffin:the ones that mattered, the ones that made for regrets." ~ John Connolly

14. "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." ~ John Connolly

15. "So what you gonna do?""Push a stick into the beehive and rustle up some bees. The Larousses are hosting a party today. I think we should avail ourselves of their hospitality.""We got an invite?""Has not having one ever stopped us before?""No, but sometimes I just like to be invited to shit, you know what I'm sayin', instead of havin' to bust in, get threatened, irritate the nice white folks, put the fear of the black man on them."He paused, seemed to think for a while about what he had just said, then brightened."Sounds good, doesn't it?" I said."Real good," he agreed." ~ John Connolly

16. "V-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, David explained that without slates on the roof, the rain would get in. In their way, they were just as important as walls. Dr. Moberley asked David if he was afraid of the rain getting in. David told him that he didn't like getting wet. It wasn't so bad outside, especially if you were dressed for it, but most people didn't dress for rain indoors." ~ John Connolly

17. "I met Hamlet at a number 48B bus stop," said Mr. Gedeon. "He'd been there for some time, poor chap. At least eight buses had passed him by, and he hadn't taken any of them. It's to be expected, I suppose. It's in his nature." ~ John Connolly

18. "David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about stories and tales and the power that they wield over us, and that we in turn wield over them." ~ John Connolly

19. "We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell." ~ John Connolly

20. "En cada adulto mora el niño que fue, y en cada niño espera el adulto que será." ~ John Connolly

21. "The beam caught the bowed head of Angel. He glanced up into Bobby Sciorra's eyes and smiled. Sciorra looked puzzled for a moment and then his mouth opened in slow-dawning realization. He was already turning to try to locate Louis when the darkness seemed to come alive around him and his eyes widened as he realized, too late, that death had come for him too." ~ John Connolly

22. "He was thirty-five and, although in no danger of being mistaken for a matinée idol, was not unattractive. Yet perhaps there was in his interiority something that rendered him if not sexless, then somewhat oblivious to the reality of relations with the opposite sex, an impression strengthened by the collective memory of what had occurred—or not occurred—with the girl from accounts." ~ John Connolly

23. "Kako je odrastao i kako mu je glazba postajala sve važnijom, majcin je glas poceo doživljavati manje kao pjesmu, a više kao svojevrsnu simfoniju koja sadržava bezbrojne varijacije na poznate teme i melodije koje se mijenjaju u skladu s njezinim hirovima i raspoloženjima." ~ John Connolly

24. "Suocavamo se s onima s kojima se moramo suociti i doci ce trenuci kad budemo morali djelovati za vece dobro, cak i ako postoji rizik za nas, ali ne trebamo nepotrebno izlagati život opasnosti. Imamo samo jedan život i možemo dati samo jedan život. Nema ništa divljenja vrijedno u tome da ga izgubimo kad je situacija beznadna." ~ John Connolly

25. "No hubo advertencia, ni invitación a volverse con las manos en alto, ni opción a rendirse. Esos gestos eran para los buenos en las películas del Oeste, los que llevaban sombreros blancos y al final se quedaban con la chica." ~ John Connolly

26. "In later life, people will be impressed that you can quote Shakespeare, and you will sound very intelligent. It's harder to quote trigonometry, or quadratic equations, and not half as romantic." ~ John Connolly

27. "And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again." ~ John Connolly

28. "There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction." ~ John Connolly

29. "Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things." ~ John Connolly

30. "There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself." ~ John Connolly

31. "You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself." ~ John Connolly

32. "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

33. "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

34. "I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his coming. I dream of snow and ice, of bare branches and moon-cast shadows. I dream of dancers floating in the air, stepping lightly even in death, and my own pain is but a faint echo of their suffering as I run. My blood is black on the snow, and the edges of the world are silvered with moonlight. I run into the darkness, and he is waiting. I dream in black and white, and I dream of him. I dream of Caleb, who does not exist, and I am afraid." ~ John Connolly

35. "Luck ran out, but smart was for life." ~ John Connolly

36. "...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that." ~ John Connolly

37. "I don't think," he said, "that a vicar is supposed to beat a bishop to death, or even back to death."Mr. Berkeley looked down upon the remains of Bishop Bernard."If anyone asks, we'll say he fell over," he said. "Lots of times." ~ John Connolly

38. "She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light..." ~ John Connolly

39. "That evening, as he got ready for bed, he heard his mother and father talking in their bedroom, and that was how he learned that Billy had been naked when he was discovered and that the police had arrested a man who lived with his mother in a clean little house not far from where the body was found. David knew from the way they were talking that something very bad had happened to Billy before he died, something to do with the man from the clean little house....Now, in another bedroom, he thought of Jonathan Tulvey and Anna, and wondered if a man from a clean little house, a man who lived with his mother and kept sweets in his pockets, had made them go down with him to the railroad tracks.And there, in the darkness, he had played with them, in his way." ~ John Connolly

40. "He was just a boy wearing pajamas, one slipper, and an old blue dressing gown under a stranger's jacket, and he did not belong anywhere but in his own bedroom." ~ John Connolly

41. "The snow fell straight and slow, adding another layer to the drifts and covering roads, trees, bushes, and bodies, the living and the dead as one beneath its veil." ~ John Connolly

42. "As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more." ~ John Connolly

43. "I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy." ~ John Connolly

44. "The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself." ~ John Connolly

45. "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

46. "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

47. "I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so." ~ John Connolly

48. "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

49. "My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's." ~ John Connolly

50. "When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought." ~ John Connolly

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