No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself. That's just the way Evil is. All things considered, it's better to be on the side of Good, even if Evil occasionally has nicer uniforms.

— John Connolly

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

— John Connolly

People who believe in buried gods,’ said Louis.‘Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?’‘I’m Episcopalian. I believe in everything.

— John Connolly

Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to their sons: there is a part of us that remains forever in debt to those responsible for our existence.

— John Connolly

Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

— John Connolly

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

— John Connolly

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.

— John Connolly

‎"Sarge, Mr. Hurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly.""really?" said Sarge. "What flavor?

— John Connolly

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.

— John Connolly

Slow animals always become prey in the end.

— John Connolly