Author: John Connolly

Cites

• Alan Valentine (1)
  • IN: Samuel Johnson vs the Devil Round II (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
    FROM: 1913: America Between Two Worlds, (1962), Book, US
• Alfred Tennyson (1)
  • IN: A Time of Torment (2016) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
    FROM: Locksley Hall, (1842), Poem, UK
• Andrew Wyeth (1)
  • IN: The Wrath of Angels (2013) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape -- the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: Bad Men (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: ...they are not towers but giants. They stand in the well from the navel down; and stationed round its bank they mount guard on the final pit of Hell.
    FROM: Inferno, Canto XXXI, (1472), Poem, Italy
• John Donne (1)
  • IN: Every Dead Thing (1999) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I am every dead thing... I am re-begot Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.
    FROM: A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, (1633), Poem, UK
• Friedrich Schiller (1)
  • IN: The Book Of Lost Things (2004) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
    FROM: The Piccolomini, (1799), Play, Germany
• Pablo Picasso (1)
  • IN: The Book Of Lost Things (2004) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Everything you can imagine is real.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Spain
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: The White Road (2002) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?
    FROM: The Wasteland, (1922), Poem, UK
• Nickel Creek (1)
  • IN: The Unquiet (2007) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Where can a dead man go? A question with an answer only dead men know.
    FROM: When in Rome, (2005), Song, US
• Edward Thomas (1)
  • IN: The Killing Kind (2001) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: And heavy is the tread Of the living; but the dead Returning lightly dance
    FROM: Roads, (1916), Poem, UK
• Origen (1)
  • IN: The Black Angel (2005) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: No one can know the origin of evil who has not grasped the truth about the so-called Devil and his angels.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Hillman (1)
  • IN: The Whisperers (2010) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: War is a mythical happening… Where else in human experience, except in the throes of ardor… do we find ourselves transported to a mythical condition and the gods most real?
    FROM: A Terrible Love of War, (2004), Book, US
• Dr. Karl Schlecta (1)
  • IN: The Gates (2009) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Scientists are not after the truth; it is the truth that is after scientists.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: Dark Hollow (2000) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Alone, alone, about a dreadful wood Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, Dreading to find its Father.
    FROM: For the Time Being, (1944), Poem, UK
• Alfred Adler (1)
  • IN: The Lovers (2009) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.
    FROM: Problems of Neurosis, (1930), Book, Austria
• Charles Dickens (1)
  • IN: The Burning Soul (2011) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Put the case, Pip, that here was one pretty little child out of the heap, who could be saved;… the legal adviser had this power: ‘I know what you did, and how you did it… Part with the child… Give the child into my hands.’
    FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
• Ovid (1)
  • IN: The Wolf in Winter (2014) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: He fed in fear and reached the silent fields And howled his heart out, trying in vain to speak.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1)
  • IN: A Song of Shadows (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
    FROM: The Master and Margarita, (1967), Novel, Russia
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Woman in the Woods (2018) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten...
    FROM: Joel 2:25, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Joseph Glanvill (1)
  • IN: A Game of Ghosts (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Indeed, as things stand for the present, the Land of Spirits is a kind of America... filled up with Mountains, Seas, and Mountains.
    FROM: A Blow at Modern Sadducism, (1668), Book, NULL