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Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 15

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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Despair, Nadir, Ascent

Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.417, Bantam

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

Order, Lions, Easy

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.77, Bantam

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

Mean, Psychology, Structure

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.189, Bantam

Alliteration seems to offend people.

People, Alliteration, Seems

Dean Koontz (2007). “Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.360, Bantam

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

Book, Character, Stories

Inaction counted as a choice.

Choices, Inaction

Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.127, Bantam

Are you prepared for the first wound?

Firsts, Prepared, Wounds

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

Responsibility, Responsibility To Others, Sense Of Responsibility

Dean Koontz (2004). “Midnight”, p.304, Penguin

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

Self, Humanity, Earth

Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.38, Bantam

We live in God's amusement park.

Amusement, Parks, Amusement Parks

Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Eden, Arrogance, World

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.334, Bantam

With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

Children, Wall, Father

Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Fool, Strange, Mysterious

Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.60, Penguin

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

Cutting, Rope, Knots

Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.

Funny, Food, Sausage

In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

Lying, Triumph, Seeds

Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.134, Bantam

Books are packaged dreams.

Dream, Book

I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times.

Mean, Two, Perfect

"Dean Koontz exorcising demons, finding happiness". www.cnn.com.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

People, Needs, Hammers

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.368, Bantam

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

Men, Reputation, Crunch

Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.24, Penguin

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.

Space, Water, Love And Friendship

Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.47, Bantam

Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

Loneliness, Doors, Two

Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.123, Bantam

The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.

Depressing, Clever, Smart

Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.552, Bantam

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

Fate, Outrun

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.332, Bantam

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

Tears, Looks, Might

Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.213, Bantam

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