{"author":"John Connolly","author_id":"John+Connolly","total_quotes":82,"quotes":[{"text":"Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["reader","reading","stories"],"id":2102,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["existing","happiness","hard","life","living","love","loving","passion","purpose","simple","surviving"],"id":9161,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"We all have our routines,' he said softly.'But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["crazy","ocd","routine"],"id":15246,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["evil","good","good-and-evil","war-with-yourself"],"id":16787,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["corrupt","corruption","evil","good","good-and-evil","good-vs-evil","triumph"],"id":23146,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is because small girls and babysitters, who are usually slightly larger girls, belong to the same species, and therefore understand each other. Small boys, on the other hand, do not understand girls, and therefore being looked after by one is a little like a hamster being looked after by a shark. If you are a small boy, it may be some consolation to you to know that even large boys do not understand girls, and girls, by and large, do not understand boys. This makes adult life very interesting.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["babysitter","children","humorous"],"id":48447,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["crime","life","past"],"id":53785,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["criminality","nature"],"id":56137,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["empathy","inspirational","reading"],"id":66622,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about stories and tales and the power that they wield over us, and that we in turn wield over them.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["mystery","science-fiction-fantasy"],"id":67976,"author_id":"John+Connolly"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":82,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}