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John Connolly Quote: “Names did have a power, if they were used in the right way.”

151. “Names did have a power, if they were used in the right way.”

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

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

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John Connolly Quote: “But I feared more the death of others. I did not want to lose them, I worried about them while they were alive. Sometimes I think I concerned myself so much with the possibility of their loss that I never truly took pleasure in the fact of their existence.”

153. “But I feared more the death of others. I did not want to lose them, I worried about them while they were alive. Sometimes I think I concerned myself so much with the possibility of their loss that I never truly took pleasure in the fact of their existence.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone.”

154. “There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone.”

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John Connolly Quote: “As for dying, he didn’t believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective reality instead of an abstract concept.”

155. “As for dying, he didn’t believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective reality instead of an abstract concept.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “They weren’t evil, or vicious, or cruel. They were just bored people with too much time on their hands, and such people will, in the end, get up to mischief.”

156. “They weren’t evil, or vicious, or cruel. They were just bored people with too much time on their hands, and such people will, in the end, get up to mischief.”

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John Connolly Quote: “They were called “rooms,” but it was still a cell. A room you could leave when you chose to do so; a cell you could not.”

157. “They were called “rooms,” but it was still a cell. A room you could leave when you chose to do so; a cell you could not.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Stupidity, he knew, did not recognize boundaries of color or creed. But he had come to believe that, like driving a car, people should have to pass a test before being allowed access to the Internet.”

158. “Stupidity, he knew, did not recognize boundaries of color or creed. But he had come to believe that, like driving a car, people should have to pass a test before being allowed access to the Internet.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “Are you sizeist?”

159. “Are you sizeist?”

— John Connolly

160. “I looked at him, at his unshaven profile, the wisps of dark hair curling out from under his dark wool hat, the empty coffee cup forgotten in his hand. He was a mass of contradictions. It struck me that I was taking life lessons from a five-six semiretired burglar whose boyfriend, not twentyfour hours earlier, had executed a man against a brick wall. My life, I reflected, was taking some strange turns.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “But he was wounded, and tired, and winter was still upon him.”

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

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “A discarded newspaper skimmed the sidewalk with a sound like the whisperings of a dead lover.”

162. “A discarded newspaper skimmed the sidewalk with a sound like the whisperings of a dead lover.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “Mrs. Abernathy frightened him, the way strong women will often frighten weak men.”

163. “Mrs. Abernathy frightened him, the way strong women will often frighten weak men.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Cresil leaned forward, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints of hate.”

164. “Cresil leaned forward, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints of hate.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “It’s good that you have someone that cares for you. It doesn’t make it easier, but it sure doesn’t make it harder.”

165. “It’s good that you have someone that cares for you. It doesn’t make it easier, but it sure doesn’t make it harder.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “A faint mist hung over the streets, creating penumbrae around the streetlights like the halos of saints, and making a dreamscape of the skyline.”

166. “A faint mist hung over the streets, creating penumbrae around the streetlights like the halos of saints, and making a dreamscape of the skyline.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Families,” said Angel, with some feeling. “Can’t live with them, can’t have them killed without complications.”

167. “Families,” said Angel, with some feeling. “Can’t live with them, can’t have them killed without complications.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Every individual spends a lifetime trying to disprove Copernicus by placing him- or herself at the heart of existence, but a small core of diehards manages to turn it into an art. Harpur Griffin was just such a man, spurred on by a suspicion, although he could never have expressed it in so many words, that he was just an emptiness with a name.”

168. “Every individual spends a lifetime trying to disprove Copernicus by placing him- or herself at the heart of existence, but a small core of diehards manages to turn it into an art. Harpur Griffin was just such a man, spurred on by a suspicion, although he could never have expressed it in so many words, that he was just an emptiness with a name.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “Some words can only be spoken to those for whom we feel passionately and deeply, just as some silences can only be shared by lovers.”

169. “Some words can only be spoken to those for whom we feel passionately and deeply, just as some silences can only be shared by lovers.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “That was what death was like: trapped in a small space with a big weight holding you down for all eternity.”

170. “That was what death was like: trapped in a small space with a big weight holding you down for all eternity.”

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John Connolly Quote: “Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.”

171. “Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.”

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John Connolly Quote: “They were so old, and so strange, that they had found a kind of existence independent of the pages they occupied.”

172. “They were so old, and so strange, that they had found a kind of existence independent of the pages they occupied.”

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John Connolly Quote: “There are places where years have no meaning, where only a hair’s breadth of history separates the present from the past. Standing there on that bleak hillside, a young man in a place where other young men had died, it was possible to feel a connection to that past, a sense that in some place further back on the the stream of time these young men were still fighting, and still dying, that they would always be fighting this battle, in this place, over and over again, with ever the same end.”

173. “There are places where years have no meaning, where only a hair’s breadth of history separates the present from the past. Standing there on that bleak hillside, a young man in a place where other young men had died, it was possible to feel a connection to that past, a sense that in some place further back on the the stream of time these young men were still fighting, and still dying, that they would always be fighting this battle, in this place, over and over again, with ever the same end.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “From high in the air, London would look just like a model, with toy houses and miniature trees on tiny streets. Maybe that was the only way you could drop the bombs: by pretending that it wasn’t real, that nobody would burn and die when they exploded below.”

174. “From high in the air, London would look just like a model, with toy houses and miniature trees on tiny streets. Maybe that was the only way you could drop the bombs: by pretending that it wasn’t real, that nobody would burn and die when they exploded below.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.”

175. “After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.”

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John Connolly Quote: “There appeared to be only two types of business in the town: everybody’s business, and business that was not yet everybody’s but soon would be once the local gossips had got to work on it.”

176. “There appeared to be only two types of business in the town: everybody’s business, and business that was not yet everybody’s but soon would be once the local gossips had got to work on it.”

— John Connolly

John Connolly Quote: “Anyway, so he bounces in on his white horse like a big perfumed tea cozy, getting involved in affairs that are none of his business, and next thing you know she wakes up and – ooooh! – was she in a bad mood.”

177. “Anyway, so he bounces in on his white horse like a big perfumed tea cozy, getting involved in affairs that are none of his business, and next thing you know she wakes up and – ooooh! – was she in a bad mood.”

— John Connolly

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