We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

— John Connolly

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

— John Connolly

We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere."" Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.

— John Connolly

What do you believe in?’ asked David.‘I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that?

— John Connolly

What's seldom is wonderful.

— John Connolly

When did you get so clever?"" When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

— John Connolly

When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar. The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living.

— John Connolly

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

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

— John Connolly

You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.

— John Connolly