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The Wanderer in Unknown Realms QUOTES

The Wanderer in Unknown Realms QUOTES

1 " If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man. "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

2 " The door, when I tried it, was locked, but a locked door is more the promise of security than security itself. "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

3 " A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds. "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

4 " They listen, the dead. They’re always listening. What else is there for them to do? "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

5 " I had met plain women, even ugly women, whose physical shortcomings had been remedied by the spirit within, their decency and kindness even effecting a kind of transformation upon them, softening the bluntness of their features. This was not such a woman. The blight was inside her, and no restyling of her hair, no careful use of cosmetics, no pretty dresses could have made her any less unsettling than she was. "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

6 " Books are constantly changing the world. If you’re a Christian, you have been changed by the Bible, by the word of God, or what was left of it when it was finally wrung through the hands of men. If you are a Muslim, look to the Koran; if a Communist, to Marx and Engels. Don’t you see? This world is constantly being altered by books. "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

7 " Books are not fixed objects: they transmit words and ideas. Their effect on each reader is unique. They put pictures in our minds. They take root. You "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

8 " There were books everywhere: on the floors, on the stairs, on furniture both built for that purpose and constructed for other ends entirely. There were bookshelves in the main hallway, in the downstairs rooms, and in the upstairs rooms. There were even bookshelves in the bathroom and the kitchen. "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

9 " Quayle himself was a surprisingly elegant man of sixty winters or more. (One might equally have said “sixty springs” or “sixty summers,” but that would have been inaccurate, for Quayle was a man of bare trees and frozen water.) "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

10 " The hatred for ex-soldiers on the part of those who had not fought was something I could not understand. They wanted us to disappear. There were no more parades now, no more kisses on the cheek. Soldiers were no more than beggars, and nobody likes a beggar. Perhaps we made them feel guilty by our presence. They might have preferred it had we all died in the mud and been buried far from England in places whose names we had not even learned to pronounce properly before we perished. "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms

11 " it takes time to get used to a strange house, especially one as old as this. Even I sometimes find myself looking over my shoulder when I’m alone in it. It’s the way of such places, isn’t it? They wear their history heavily. "

― John Connolly , The Wanderer in Unknown Realms