The Woman in the Woods Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“It never paid to underestimate children.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“I don’t think you can dial 911 for a literary emergency.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“In the end, we’ll all face oblivion.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“No necesito referencias —dijo—. Sé quién es usted. Lo busqué en Google. ¿Tiene pensado matar a alguien? —¿Qué día es hoy? —Me parece que jueves. —No, no tengo pensado matar a nadie.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“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

“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

“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

“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

“his childhood Catholicism had never left him and he still derived comfort from a place of worship.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“The law wasn’t a great business to be in if one valued truth, or even justice.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“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

“pulled on a pair of gloves, just”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“Dobey was all for the Second Amendment, but even at the best of times he regarded anyone who entered a restaurant, store, or public park while flaunting a gun as a cocksucker of the highest order, and that went double for Dobey’s own place of business.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“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

“Although he was a northern creature, more comfortable with dark and cold than light and heat, he had long since passed the annual point of weariness with the elements, and yearned to see expanses of earth and grass unsullied by patches of grim ice.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“You already knew the right thing to do. You just needed someone to confirm it for you.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“Some people had a way of colonizing spaces, adapting them to form sanctuaries for themselves. Quayle was such a man. Billy took a seat”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“borderline simpleton.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“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

“were indeed the case that behind every great fortune lay a great crime—and this was as true of the New World as of the Old, if”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“If the mother was not married at either conception or birth, the details of the putative father could not be entered on the certificate without both his written consent and that of the mother. In other words, there was little to stop a woman”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“and conniving where he was clever.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“he had more days behind him than ahead.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“a sadness that turned the world to gray. He”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“Americans had endured centuries of patronization by the British. One became inured to it after a while.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“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