John Connolly
John Connolly
John Connollyis an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth31 May 1968
CountryIreland
blow soul ashes
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.
jobs simple differences
42. Most people will spend their lives doing jobs that they don't particularly enjoy, and will eventually save up enough money to stop doing those jobs just in time to start dying instead. Don't be one of those people. There's a difference between living, and just surviving. Do something that you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It really is that simple. And that hard.
heart broken people
This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people,
pain eye people
There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain, and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse that they seek. Sometimes, it is better to keep your eyes on the gutter for the fear that, by looking up, you might catch a glimpse of them, black shapes against the sun, and be blinded forever.
reading thinking views
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.
flavor jelly threatening
"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?
children book land
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.
children lying adults
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
home work
If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.
numbers
Their numbers 9, 10 and 15 demonstrated how to play in the conditions.
bigger challenge mind winning
I don't mind a challenge and they don't come bigger than winning a World Cup.
song real lying
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real existence in our world. 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. they lie dormant hoping for the chance to emerge.They want us to give them life.