The Lovers Quotes

“We haunt ourselves, I sometimes think; or, rather, we choose to be haunted. If there is a hole in our lives, then something will fill it. We invite it inside, and it accepts willingly.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“Not every wound needs to be poked and opened, and not every wrong needs to be reexamined, or dragged kicking and screaming into the light. Better just to let the wound heal, even if it doesn’t heal quite right, or to leave the wrongs in the dark, and remind yourself not to go stepping into the shadows if you can avoid it.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“That is what we do for the ones we love: we lie to protect them. Not all truths are welcome.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren’t many.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“[I]gnorance was never an obstacle to a good sound bite.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“I knew that his God—for each man has his own God—let him wander there sometimes, perhaps with the ghost of one of the many dogs that had kept him company through his life yapping at his heels, flushing the birds from the rushes and chasing them for the joy of it. 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 Lovers

“all presented one face to the world, and kept another hidden. Nobody could survive in it otherwise.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“grave emotional injury might somehow have triggered a physical response, so that”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“Všichni předvádíme světu jednu tvář a druhou skrýváme. Jinak bychom nedokázali přežít.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“knew that his God—for each man has his own God—let him wander there sometimes, perhaps with the ghost of one of the many dogs that had kept him company through his life yapping at his heels, flushing the birds from the rushes and chasing them for the joy of it. My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a”
― John Connolly, The Lovers

“She was merely doing what all young girls did, or what those who understood the nature of the balance of power between the sexes generally did. The boy wanted her, but as soon as she gave herself to Bobby unconditionally, she would cede control of the relationship to him. Better to force him to prove his loyalty to her before she surrendered herself fully.”
― John Connolly, The Lovers