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He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.
John Connolly
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John Connolly
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
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Dublin city
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He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.
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You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.
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Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being.
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Each man dreams his own heaven.
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We all have our routines, he said softly.But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.
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a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like a Doctor who tells you you’re suffering from a “thingy,” except the doctor won’t tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.
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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).
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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.
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I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.
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Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.
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I don't think, he said, that a vicar is supposed to beat a bishop to death, or even back to death. Mr. Berkeley looked down upon the remains of Bishop Bernard. If anyone asks, we'll say he fell over, he said. Lots of times.
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This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.
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...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.
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They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.
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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.
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. . . 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.
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You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.
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