John Connolly

The Book Of Lost Things

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  • Adilla Meytiarahas quoted6 years ago
    Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn’t exist at all when it suited them, but that was another matter entirely.
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    “Foul thing,” he cried. “After all that I did, after all that you made me do, you betrayed me at the last.”
    “I made you do nothing, Jonathan,” replied the Crooked Man. “You did it because you wanted to. No one can make you do evil. You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.”
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity. There were wars before it, and there will be wars after it, and in between people will still fight one another and hurt one another and maim one another and betray one another, because that is what they have always done.
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    So you left behind one war, only to find yourself in the midst of another
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    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). Those who were given that knowledge found that they could not sleep or eat or enjoy any of the pleasures life had to offer them, so tormented were they by what they had seen. Their lives became a kind of living death, devoid of joy, and all that was left to them was fear and sadness, so that when at last the end came they were almost grateful for it.
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    As a child you saw things only in black and white, good and bad, what gave you pleasure and what brought you pain. Now you see everything in shades of gray. Even the care of your own kingdom is beyond you, so unwilling are you to decide what is right and wrong or even to admit that you can tell the difference. You knew what you were agreeing to on the day that we made our bargain. Regrets have clouded your memory, and now you seek to blame me for your own weaknesses. Mind your tongue, old man, or else I will be forced to remind you of the power that I still wield over you
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    it was that capacity for harm that frightened him more than anything else.
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    They were false hopes, dreams without foundation
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    You are brave, and you are both stronger than you look and stronger than you believe yourself to be
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    Remember, though, that nothing comes without cost
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