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

- John Connolly

There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking …

- John Connolly

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.

- John Connolly

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 th…

- John Connolly

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

- John Connolly

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

- John Connolly

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

- John Connolly

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

- John Connolly

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 see…

- John Connolly