Quotes from Dean Koontz

Sad to say, not all human beings were that open-minded. Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

Earth's creatures other than humankind. Their lives are short and hard and ever shadowed by threat, and they endure periods of hunger when in their foraging they find nothing, and they persevere through sickness without understanding what it is they suffer, and they have seen others devoured by something bigger with sharper teeth. Yet in spite of all they have to fear, they sleep as if they are safe when unconscious, and they wake to each new day with enthusiasm.

Which would not surprise me. But a role in what?

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge, why would the effort matter, what would be the point.

If some hopped-up loser, desperate for drug money or violent sex, broke into your house, you could be killed five times over in thirty-two minutes. Consequently, most of these people were prepared to defend themselves—and with enthusiasm.

that she would have steadied him, that with her he would have found greater intellectual and emotional depths in himself than he would ever discover alone.

Some are street thugs who will kill you for the contents of your wallet or merely for the thrill of it.

They said that man proposes, God disposes;

our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Family is the glue that holds the world together, even when it's not a family of one blood.

But once in a while, they have to see one of their own get his package cut off just so they'll stop and wonder if maybe there is a god.

Jason Bookman, right hand to Parable founder, Dorian Purcell, and his pilot died today in the crash of a helicopter owned by the company.

We all arrive in this world with a ticket out of it, but somehow, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, we remain convinced that those we care about will be with us for a long ride.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves"—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. And "Greater

Panthea, the daughter of John Kennedy Ching

pistol holstered, he pulls on his sport coat and drops a spare magazine in one pocket, the radio-wave jammer in another.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our knowledge." He realized that he was

Some of that wind had begun to sweep the streets of Black River, just enough of it to turn the leaves on the trees—a sign, according to folklore, of oncoming rain.

They weren't keen on sending someone to dispose of his clothing and other personal effects.

And because your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will, if you entertain too much anxiety about too many things, if you place no trust in providence, what you fear will more often come to pass. We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable

These days, many of the younger generation lacked a serious work ethic and, having been hooked on tech and social media most of their lives, had the attention span of a Chihuahua with ADHD

mellowing influences of elocution teachers

As a man who felt that he had been born too late, Jeffy was often amazed at what passed for high art in this low age.

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