The Killing Kind Quotes

“I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“There is a dark resource within all of us, a reservoir of hurt and pain and anger upon which we can draw when the need arises. Most of us rarely, if ever, have to delve too deeply into it. That is as it should be, because dipping into it costs and you lose a little of yourself each time, a small part of all that is good and honorable and decent about you. Each time you use it you have to go a little deeper, a little further down into the blackness. Strange creatures move through its depths, illuminated by a burning light from within and fueled only by the desire to survive and to kill. The danger in diving into that pool, in drinking from that dark water, is that one day you may submerge yourself so deeply that you can never find the surface again. Give in to it and you're lost forever.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“You must be careful where you step.
And you must be ready for what you might find.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“When I started in homicide, the Dead Sea was just sick.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“..her lips were as red as a stop light..”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“what human beings did: they tried and failed and failed again, and they kept failing until either they got it right at last or time ran out and they had to settle for what they had.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain and exist only to visit that pain on others.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“The past never truly dies. It is there, waiting, just below the surface of the now.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“Okay," I said hoarsely as the blood left my head and headed south for the winter.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“There are places where years have no meaning, where only a hair's breadth of history separates the present from the past. Standing there on that bleak hillside, a young man in a place where other young men had died, it was possible to feel a connection to that past, a sense that in some place further back on the the stream of time these young men were still fighting, and still dying, that they would always be fighting this battle, in this place, over and over again, with ever the same end.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“Deborah Mercier couldn’t have looked more like a WASP if her coat had been striped with yellow and her eyes had been on the sides of her head. She”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“Lester Bargus was what people liked to call 'two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“Shape”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another’s pain as one’s own, and to act to take that pain away. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse they seek.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“It was my first glimpse of the honeycomb world, my first inkling that the past never truly dies but is strangely, beautifully alive in the present. There is an interconnectedness to all things, a link between what lies buried and what lives above, a capacity for mutability that allows a good act committed in the present to rectify an imbalance in times gone by. That, in the end, is the nature of justice: not to undo the past but, by acting further down the line of time, to restore some measure of harmony, some possibility of equilibrium, so that lives may continue with their burden eased and the dead may find peace in a world beyond this one.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“bad”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind

“wants to accept that someone close might have taken his or her own life. Too much blame accrues to those left behind for it to be accommodated so easily.”
― John Connolly, The Killing Kind