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John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. May 1968  •  Other names Джон Коннолли
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Works

The Book of Lost Things
The Gates
The Gates
John Connolly
The Killing Kind
The Killing Kind
John Connolly
The Book of Lost Things
The Gates
The Gates
John Connolly
The Killing Kind
The Killing Kind
John Connolly
John Connolly: 23 quotes5 likes

Famous John Connolly Quotes

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

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“… For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven.

And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.”

John Connolly

Source: The Infernals

“I believe in those whom I love and trust.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“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.”

John Connolly

Source: The Infernals

John Connolly Quotes about people

“He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“Can I ever come back here' he asked, and the Woodsman said something very strange in reply.
'Most people come back here,' he said, 'in the end”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

John Connolly Quotes about time

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

John Connolly book The Killing Kind

Source: The Killing Kind

“I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her…'
'… Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.'
'… Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“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 The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

John Connolly Quotes

“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

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

John Connolly

Source: Nocturnes

“Each man dreams his own heaven.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“Storiesto 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.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

“And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

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

John Connolly book The Gates

Source: The Gates

“My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

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

John Connolly

Source: The Reapers

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