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Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 19

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Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us. If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

White, Rabbits, Wonderland

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

Mother, Baby, Talking

Dean Koontz (2002). “Strangers”, p.209, Penguin

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

Needs, Remember

Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.124, Penguin

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Novelists, Sooner Or Later

Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

Sex, Fun, Gambling

Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

Cheating, Lying, Ignorance

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

True Evil, Ideas, Literature

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

Wife, Secret, World

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

Differences, Humanity, Defense

Dean Koontz (2008). “Odd Hours: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.150, Bantam

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

Dream, Real, Book

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

Night, Patterns

Dean Koontz (2008). “Shadowfires”, p.177, Penguin

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Kindness, Empathy, Weakness

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.471, Bantam

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

Keys, Doors, Heaven

Dean Koontz (2012). “One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder”, p.593, Hachette UK

I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

Wise, Children, Years

Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.1, Bantam

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Simple, Answers, Literature

"Contemplating Evil: An Interview with Dean Koontz". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Lisa Snell, reason.com. November 1996.

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

Power, Temples, Worship

Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.39, Bantam

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

Alive, I'm Alive

Dean Koontz (2009). “Frankenstein: Dead and Alive: A Novel”, p.30, Bantam

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

White, Black, Sound

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

Friendship, Expression, Teeth

Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.105, Bantam

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

Answers, Weapons, Murder

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.619, Bantam

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

Interesting, Riding, Want

Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.334, Bantam

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

Baby, World, Wonder

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

Life, Clever, Two

Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.308, Bantam

Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.

Ignorance, Sleep, Night

Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.97, Bantam

... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.

Book, Ferrets, Ears

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.772, Bantam

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