The Wrath of Angels Quotes

“Some revelations came only with the sound of dirt falling on a coffin:the ones that mattered, the ones that made for regrets.”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a man to be reunited with his dogs in the next life He was no God worth worshipping; that if a dog did not have a soul, then nothing had.”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it took you so long to realize what you’d been missing.”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“He had loved her as much as a man can love his wife, and so nothing more need be said.”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“Harlan Vetters”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“The spider carried the larvae as they developed, and they in turn altered its behavior, causing it to change the webs that it spun, so that when the larvae finally erupted from its body they would have a cushioned web upon which to rest while they fed on the remains of the arachnid in which they had gestated. Epstein had told me that there were entities who did the same to men—dark passengers on the human soul, carried unawares for years, even decades, until it came time to reveal their true natures, and then they consumed the consciousness of their hosts.”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“Most people who talked about angels seemed to picture a fusion of Tinker Bell and a crossing guard...”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“Some revelations came only with the sound of dirt falling on a coffin; the ones that mattered, the ones that made for regrets.”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“His figures should have been through the roof; the economy was still unsteady, the president was hog-tied by his own compromised idealism, and Davis and his kind had succeeded in vilifying unions, immigrants, and welfare cases, making them carry the can for the greed of bankers and Wall Street sharks, thereby somehow convincing sane people that the poorest and weakest in the nation were responsible for most of its ills. What never ceased to amaze Tate was that many of those same individuals (the dirt-poor, the unemployed, the welfare recipients) listened to his show, even as he castigated those (the union organizers, the bleeding-heart liberals) who most wanted to help them.”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“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. —Andrew Wyeth (1917”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels

“I was a stranger in a familiar land.”
― John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels