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The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16) QUOTES

The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16) QUOTES

1 " If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

2 " He wouldn’t be the first man to have died from dropping a lit joint. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

3 " Patriots built Auschwitz. You start believing that “my country wrong or right” shit, and it always ends up at the same place: a pit filled with bones. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

4 " I don’t think you can dial 911 for a literary emergency. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

5 " Billy grinned. ‘Seems to me that you might be up to no good here. Are you a bad man?’
Quayle smiled back, and the lights of the bar gleamed like dying stars in the void of his eyes. ‘Trust me when I say that you have no conception.’
Billy’s smile faded. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

6 " Of their friendship, Montaigne wrote: ‘If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.’
Louis touched his fingers to the page.
Yes, he thought. Yes. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

7 " There would always be too few people in this world who cared enough to put themselves at risk for the sake of strangers, and too many who sought to inflict pain on the familiar and nameless alike. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

8 " Cadillac might have been off the beaten track, but a lot of folk preferred the ditch to the highway. It was like Neil Young said: you meet more interesting people there. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

9 " We all know that books burn—yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. . . . In this war, we know, books are weapons. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

10 " It never paid to underestimate children. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

11 " So you’re British?’ said Billy.
‘I think of myself as English first, British second. It’s a way of keeping the Scots and Welsh at a distance, never mind the Irish. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

12 " One dresses off a frequent-buyer card at Goodwill, the other like he got lost on the way to a séance. Know them? "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

13 " Some words can only be spoken to those for whom we feel passionately and deeply, just as some silences can only be shared by lovers. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

14 " his childhood Catholicism had never left him and he still derived comfort from a place of worship. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

15 " Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

16 " The law wasn’t a great business to be in if one valued truth, or even justice. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

17 " Castin for years, and he still wasn’t sure whether the lawyer deliberately selected garments that were incompatible with his build, or the cut of any clothing began to deteriorate immediately upon contact with him. It was, Parker surmised, one of life’s great mysteries. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

18 " pulled on a pair of gloves, just "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

19 " Perhaps it was just a function of realizing, as the years went by, how little he really knew about very much at all. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

20 " There are gods within gods. "

― John Connolly , The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)