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John Connolly Quote: “The law doesn’t require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that’s acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies. – Elwin Stark.”

101. “The law doesn’t require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that’s acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies. – Elwin Stark.”

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John Connolly Quote: “You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned their backs on the sufferings of others, and left them in pain; those whose greed meant that others starved and died. Such souls belong here, because they would find no peace elsewhere. In this place, they are understood. In this place, their faults have meaning. In this place, they belong.”

102. “You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned their backs on the sufferings of others, and left them in pain; those whose greed meant that others starved and died. Such souls belong here, because they would find no peace elsewhere. In this place, they are understood. In this place, their faults have meaning. In this place, they belong.”

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John Connolly Quote: “He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths.”

103. “He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths.”

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John Connolly Quote: “She was night without the promise of dawn, darkness without light.”

104. “She was night without the promise of dawn, darkness without light.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.”

105. “Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Sometimes, I think that I concerned myself so much with the possibility of their loss that I never truly took pleasure in the fact of their existence.”

106. “Sometimes, I think that I concerned myself so much with the possibility of their loss that I never truly took pleasure in the fact of their existence.”

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John Connolly Quote: “I have found in the past that what passes for coincidence is usually life’s way of telling you that you’re not paying enough attention.”

107. “I have found in the past that what passes for coincidence is usually life’s way of telling you that you’re not paying enough attention.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one’s view of them.”

108. “Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one’s view of them.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Not every wound needs to be poked and opened, and not every wrong needs to be reexamined, or dragged kicking and screaming into the light. Better just to let the wound heal, even if it doesn’t heal quite right, or to leave the wrongs in the dark, and remind yourself not to go stepping into the shadows if you can avoid it.”

109. “Not every wound needs to be poked and opened, and not every wrong needs to be reexamined, or dragged kicking and screaming into the light. Better just to let the wound heal, even if it doesn’t heal quite right, or to leave the wrongs in the dark, and remind yourself not to go stepping into the shadows if you can avoid it.”

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John Connolly Quote: “I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren’t many.”

110. “I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren’t many.”

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John Connolly Quote: “When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.”

111. “When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.”

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John Connolly Quote: “His grandfather used to say that there were angels whom devils would greet on the street. If that were true, thought Parker, then let the devils raise their hats to him. It would just make them easier to identify and destroy.”

112. “His grandfather used to say that there were angels whom devils would greet on the street. If that were true, thought Parker, then let the devils raise their hats to him. It would just make them easier to identify and destroy.”

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John Connolly Quote: “It didn’t help when he told David that his mother would always be with him, even if he couldn’t see her. An unseen mother couldn’t go for long walks with you on summer evenings, drawing the names of trees and flowers from her seemingly infinite knowledge of nature; or help you with your homework, the familiar scent of her in your nostrils as she leaned in to correct a misspelling or puzzle over the meaning of an unfamiliar poem; or read with you on cold Sunday afternoons when the fire.”

113. “It didn’t help when he told David that his mother would always be with him, even if he couldn’t see her. An unseen mother couldn’t go for long walks with you on summer evenings, drawing the names of trees and flowers from her seemingly infinite knowledge of nature; or help you with your homework, the familiar scent of her in your nostrils as she leaned in to correct a misspelling or puzzle over the meaning of an unfamiliar poem; or read with you on cold Sunday afternoons when the fire.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “It bore an expression he’d seen before: love poisoned by disappointment.”

114. “It bore an expression he’d seen before: love poisoned by disappointment.”

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John Connolly Quote: “We lose ourselves by degrees: our youth, our souls.”

115. “We lose ourselves by degrees: our youth, our souls.”

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John Connolly Quote: “The stories were always looking for a way to be told, to be brought to life through books and reading. That was how they crossed over from their world into ours.”

116. “The stories were always looking for a way to be told, to be brought to life through books and reading. That was how they crossed over from their world into ours.”

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John Connolly Quote: “He was in his mid-thirties, tall and pale and thin, with long, sandy hair and rimless glasses, dressed in brown polyester pants, cheap brown shoes, and a light tan shirt. He looked like someone had put a wig on a giraffe and run it through the local Target.”

117. “He was in his mid-thirties, tall and pale and thin, with long, sandy hair and rimless glasses, dressed in brown polyester pants, cheap brown shoes, and a light tan shirt. He looked like someone had put a wig on a giraffe and run it through the local Target.”

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John Connolly Quote: “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.”

118. “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.”

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John Connolly Quote: “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?”

119. “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?”

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John Connolly Quote: “Sometimes he would forget her, but in forgetting he would remember her again, and the ache for her would return with a vengeance.”

120. “Sometimes he would forget her, but in forgetting he would remember her again, and the ache for her would return with a vengeance.”

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John Connolly Quote: “There’s always someplace to go, even if it’s only someplace else.”

121. “There’s always someplace to go, even if it’s only someplace else.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that was bad in men and women, but he had none of the greatness, and none of the grace, of which human beings were capable, so that by only by corrupting them was his own pain diminished, and thus his existence made more tolerable.”

122. “Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that was bad in men and women, but he had none of the greatness, and none of the grace, of which human beings were capable, so that by only by corrupting them was his own pain diminished, and thus his existence made more tolerable.”

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John Connolly Quote: “The law wasn’t a great business to be in if one valued truth, or even justice.”

123. “The law wasn’t a great business to be in if one valued truth, or even justice.”

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John Connolly Quote: “He has his father’s distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental.”

124. “He has his father’s distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Most of the bad situations I’ve encountered began with the best of intentions.”

125. “Most of the bad situations I’ve encountered began with the best of intentions.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Slow animals always become prey in the end.”

126. “Slow animals always become prey in the end.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Stories wanted to be read, David’s mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”

127. “Stories wanted to be read, David’s mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”

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John Connolly Quote: “He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn’t make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer.”

128. “He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn’t make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.”

129. “Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.”

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John Connolly Quote: “After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.”

130. “After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Suddenly, it seemed as if David was surrounded by short, unhappy men muttering about “rights” and “liberties” and having enough of “this sort of thing.”

131. “Suddenly, it seemed as if David was surrounded by short, unhappy men muttering about “rights” and “liberties” and having enough of “this sort of thing.”

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John Connolly Quote: “He had counted so carefully. He had abided by the rules, but life had cheated.”

132. “He had counted so carefully. He had abided by the rules, but life had cheated.”

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John Connolly Quote: “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.”

133. “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.”

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John Connolly Quote: “He had found it hard to equate the priest’s God with the one who had left his mother to die slowly and painfully.”

134. “He had found it hard to equate the priest’s God with the one who had left his mother to die slowly and painfully.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Parker felt, not for the first time, as though he had wandered into a ghost story.”

135. “Parker felt, not for the first time, as though he had wandered into a ghost story.”

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John Connolly Quote: “I’m a ghost,” said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, “Boo?”

136. “I’m a ghost,” said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, “Boo?”

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John Connolly Quote: “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.”

137. “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.”

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John Connolly Quote: “He was just thinking aloud, ruling out possibilities by releasing them into the air, like canaries in the coal mine of his mind.”

138. “He was just thinking aloud, ruling out possibilities by releasing them into the air, like canaries in the coal mine of his mind.”

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John Connolly Quote: “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.”

139. “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.”

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John Connolly Quote: “He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one shape or size all by themselves, such as O’Dear, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They’re Overweight, and his twin, O’Really, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They’re Slim When They’re Not.”

140. “He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one shape or size all by themselves, such as O’Dear, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They’re Overweight, and his twin, O’Really, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They’re Slim When They’re Not.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling.”

141. “Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling.”

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John Connolly Quote: “A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds.”

142. “A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds.”

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John Connolly Quote: “I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.”

143. “I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.”

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John Connolly Quote: “A job, in their view, was a job, and, as with most jobs, you just had to find that perfect balance between doing as little as possible so you didn’t get tired, and just enough so that you didn’t get fired.”

144. “A job, in their view, was a job, and, as with most jobs, you just had to find that perfect balance between doing as little as possible so you didn’t get tired, and just enough so that you didn’t get fired.”

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John Connolly Quote: “If he has a weakness, it’s that he’s a moral being. Where possible, he’ll do the right thing, the just thing, and if he does wrong he’ll bear the guilt of it.”

145. “If he has a weakness, it’s that he’s a moral being. Where possible, he’ll do the right thing, the just thing, and if he does wrong he’ll bear the guilt of it.”

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John Connolly Quote: “They listened to the Beatles for most of the journey, and Hynes explained to Gackowska why Abbey Road was the band’s best record, and how Sgt. Pepper’s wasn’t really a concept album, no matter what anyone claimed to the contrary. Then he had to explain to Gackowska what a concept album was, and a B side, until pretty soon he felt about a hundred years old and was tempted to check himself into a nursing home.”

146. “They listened to the Beatles for most of the journey, and Hynes explained to Gackowska why Abbey Road was the band’s best record, and how Sgt. Pepper’s wasn’t really a concept album, no matter what anyone claimed to the contrary. Then he had to explain to Gackowska what a concept album was, and a B side, until pretty soon he felt about a hundred years old and was tempted to check himself into a nursing home.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Badness lingered, and if blood penetrated deep enough into wood, the stain became near permanent. The past gave substance to the present, and all old places were storehouses of memory: the more ancient the site, the greater the accumulation, and bygone atrocities called to new.”

147. “Badness lingered, and if blood penetrated deep enough into wood, the stain became near permanent. The past gave substance to the present, and all old places were storehouses of memory: the more ancient the site, the greater the accumulation, and bygone atrocities called to new.”

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John Connolly Quote: “These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.”

148. “These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.”

149. “Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Are you sizeist?”

150. “Are you sizeist?”

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