“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, quote from Every Dead Thing
“For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was unsure whether I was a man waking from a dream of death or a dreamer entering a world of loss, a man dreaming of unhappiness or a man waking to grief.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“Why did you shoot him?"
"You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“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, quote from Every Dead Thing
“I believe in evil because I have touched it, and it has touched me.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“Frank tried to look like he was wrestling with his conscience, although he couldn't have found his conscience without a shovel and an exhumation order.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“I slipped from present to past, sliding down the snake heads of memory into what was and what would never be again.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“The evolutionary curve obviously sloped pretty gently where Six came from.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES, only patterns we do not see.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“Sometimes we need our pain. We need it to call our own.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“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, quote from Every Dead Thing
“the more of us there are, the more distant from each other we become. We’re practically livin’ on top of each other but we’re further away from each other in every other way than we’ve ever been before.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“We’re the world’s leading producer of serial killers. It’s a sign of sickness, is what it is. We’re sick and weak and these killers are like a cancer inside us: the faster we grow, the quicker they multiply.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“could see that there were no shell casings on”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“I read somewhere that the New Orleans citizenry bought fewer copies of the New York Times than any other city in the United States, although they made up for it by buying more formal wear than anywhere else. If you’re going out to formal dinners every evening, you don’t get much time to read the New York Times.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“And I knew, too, that to live a life like Walter Cole’s—a life almost mundane in the pleasure it derived from small happinesses and the beauty of the familiar, but uncommon in the value it attached to them—was something to be envied.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“On the day of the funeral he had stood behind me in the rain and let the water wash over him, the drops falling from the brim of his hat like tears”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“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.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
“Behold not Death’s Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook’st them.”
― John Connolly, quote from Every Dead Thing
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“Right now there's a commonly-held view among scientists that we know about only four percent of all the matter in the universe. Four percent!"
"So what about the other 96 percent?"
"We astrophysicists call it 'dark matter' and 'dark energy.' Maybe we should just call it ignorance. There's so much that we don't know. It's shocking how little we know. And yet we behave like little gods who think we're in control of everything. Like kids with delusions of grandeur. Isn't that what we've made ourselves into? It's as if we're trying to make ourselves believe that four percent is all there is. That everything else, all that we don't know, doesn't exist. But it does. We know it's there; we just don't understand it.”
― quote from The Last Good Man
“It's as if I've never seen Jane before, never known her. With just an undervest on, she looks unbelievably thin. Arms no wider than the sticks of a bower. A collarbone protuding from the skin in all its detail. And with that one gesture, I learn the fundamental truth of her. When she takes off her sweater and, without thinking, hands it over to David to use as wool, I can see how Jane loves. And I know -with all my heart I know- that there is no protection in the world for someone who loves like that.”
― Helen Humphreys, quote from The Lost Garden
“If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, fleeting, and way too precious to waste waiting around for happiness to hit you over the head and make itself known. Happiness wasn't something you found, happiness was something you made - by living in the moment, by cherishing the people in your life right now, by finding the courage to change those things you didn't like”
― Laura Kaye, quote from Hard as It Gets
“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. Tempers strain and recover, hearts break and heal, strength falters, fails, and comes near to giving way altogether, every day, without being noted by the closest lookers-on.”
― Helen Hunt Jackson, quote from Ramona
“It doesn't come in pretty packages. Sometimes it dents and bruises and does things it regrets, but it also forgives, shows mercy, and supports. It soothes and fights to the death.”
― Angie McKeon, quote from Against All Odds
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