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A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15) QUOTES

A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15) QUOTES

1 " If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

2 " There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

3 " Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

4 " Families,” said Angel, with some feeling. “Can’t live with them, can’t have them killed without complications. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

5 " Then again, maybe nostalgia was an understandable response to a world that appeared to be going all to hell, as long as everyone remembered that the past was a nice place to visit but nobody should want to settle in it. One "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

6 " Although it was cold out, he opened the window slightly because the room smelled of sleep. The action dislodged something red and black from the frame, "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

7 " A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. — "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

8 " A faint mist hung over the streets, creating penumbrae around the streetlights like the halos of saints, and making a dreamscape of the skyline. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

9 " Parker felt, not for the first time, as though he had wandered into a ghost story. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

10 " He has his father’s distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

11 " He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn’t make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

12 " And Frank was right: they were both fathers who had lost children, and somehow they had come through that loss—not without ongoing pain, and not without fractures, but they had endured, "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

13 " It bore an expression he’d seen before: love poisoned by disappointment. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

14 " Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in human flesh. —Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (1864) "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

15 " although his physician had advised him not to be overly concerned about forgetting facts and names, and he should begin to worry only if he stopped noticing that he couldn’t remember them—if, in essence, he forgot that he was forgetting. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

16 " Love covers a multitude of sins. "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

17 " It was like finding oneself under the scrutiny of a stuffed bird. His "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

18 " She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

19 " Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, I wish, I wish he’d go away . . . — "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)

20 " His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His "

― John Connolly , A Game of Ghosts (Charlie Parker, #15)