A Game of Ghosts Quotes

“Families,” said Angel, with some feeling. “Can’t live with them, can’t have them killed without complications.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“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

“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. —”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“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

“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

“Parker felt, not for the first time, as though he had wandered into a ghost story.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“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

“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

“It bore an expression he’d seen before: love poisoned by disappointment.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“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

“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

“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

“There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“He looked around him. The floor was a mess of broken glass, shards of china, pieces of plaster, and wood splinters. The wall above his head was pockmarked with bullet holes, and a dead man lay in a spreading stain of red. ‘You see?’ he said to Louis. ‘This is why we can’t have nice things.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“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 . . . William Hughes Mearns, “Antigonish”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“beard, his profile peculiarly flattened, as though there were not quite enough of him to fully occupy three dimensions.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“A little fragment of his heart came loose and was lost to him each time he had to say goodbye to her.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“Whether his prayers were in vain or not, he didn’t care. It was the effort that counted. But he knew that, somewhere, those prayers were being heard.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“She was tall and dark, and although her individual features were without flaw, they had somehow combined to form an unattractive whole, as though she had been created from the scavenged pieces of others. Eldritch”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“Parker had seen men and women physically diminished in this way before, weighed down by suffering. Grief has its own gravity. They”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“even if she saw a ghost, she still wouldn’t believe it.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“and favored an obscure French perfume that reminded Kirk of dead chanteuses. Madlyn still saw the ghosts,”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“think you just like tethering goats.” “Well, be sure to tell me when your rope begins”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“bought a pristine copy of Man on the Run, a biography of Paul McCartney that began not with the Beatles, but with what McCartney did after they broke up. Parker had always preferred McCartney’s work to John Lennon’s, whatever effect it might have had on his standing with the cool kids. Lennon could only ever really write about himself, and Parker felt that he lacked empathy. McCartney, by contrast, was capable of thinking, or feeling, himself into the lives of others. It was the difference between “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane”: although Parker loved both songs, “Penny Lane” was filled with characters, while “Strawberry Fields Forever” really had only one, and his name was John Lennon. Parker might even have taken the view that Lennon needed to get out of his apartment more, but when he did, an idiot shot him. He’d probably been right to spend the best part of a decade locked inside. Ross appeared just as McCartney”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“I’m not in the business of facilitating the creation of martyrs. That’s”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“If you’re getting fucked, then you’re getting fucked. But if you’re getting fucked by someone who’s smiling, then you’re really getting fucked.”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“clever wasn’t the same as honest. Ferrier”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts

“Their smiles never lit up their eyes, and”
― John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts