Quotes from Dean Koontz

you were incarnate as yourself in numerous timelines, living many lives.

Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph.

utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

gobsmacked.

While he watched, the phenomenon diminished. The whirl of leaves settled, and the night grew still once more. As the last leaves floated to rest on the grass, John thought he heard a familiar sigh of pleasure, one he hadn't heard for a long time. If this had been a ghost, it had been a blithe spirit. Filled with sudden wonder, remembering their golden retriever that had died two years earlier, John whispered, "Willard?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dorian wrote essays identifying serious problems facing humanity—and then proposing solutions. Often controversial solutions. He covered everything from overpopulation to declining population, global warming to global cooling, nuclear-fusion power to the practicality of million-acre solar farms, likely paths to curing cancer, and

Woody said, "No. His name is Kipp.

piece of dark cloth draped over the

Dick Dale and the Deltones, the Beach Boys, the Ventures, Santo & Johnny, the Chantays, Jan and Dean for nostalgic background music.

A man who believes in nothing may look strong, but he's fragile. He can be made to believe in anything, for the emptiness in him yearns to be filled.

He paused in his drinking to watch torsional fish, their fins wimpling as they swam through the sun-pierced pools in which the descending stream periodically gathered itself.

that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature. She

Sometimes the vastness of creation filled Jeffy less with a sense of wonder than with reverent dread

Utopias, after all, are sought mostly by great fools, though also by dangerous charlatans, and more death and pain has been brought down on humanity by the pursuit of a perfect world than by all other crime combined.

possibility of drastically extending the human life span.

all of time—past, present, and future—was complete in the instant of the big bang. Therefore the past and the future were contained in the present. If the future of this timeline was here to be known right now, there might be people gifted enough to see what most could not.

Ganesh held up one hand. "There's more, and it suggests that tens of thousands of people, focused on the same expectation, can unwittingly affect reality and make that expectation come to pass.

She believed in pursuing the truth of things rather than living in the pleasure of ignorance, and never before had a mystery as abstruse as this challenged her.

The angry man shoots too often from the hip and misses his target or hits the wrong one, while a wrathful man proceeds without malice but with a thirst for justice.

There's not the slightest blemish on his reputation. He's an enlightened progressive lawman

keeping a well-supplied larder was one way to buy at least a small measure of security, a way to feel safe.

He makes eye contact with Katie for a moment, and then rests his chin

Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness, and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.