Quotes from Dean Koontz

Perhaps this wasn't precisely what had been said back in the day, but instead the essence of it translated through fallible memory.

I'm going to say something, and you're going to say nothing." "All right." "Somebody's blessed to have you for a daughter.

have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

stay silent, say nothing, and maybe people would like you. And if you didn't tell them what an embarrassing mess you were, maybe they wouldn't notice.

the drawer contains a 9 mm Glock pistol. She stashes the gun here

earned him in excess of twenty million dollars.

they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion

Libby remembers too well what was on her father's laptop.

What did she do?" "Ruined everything. Out of pride.

Even if I were in charge of making policy,' Zachariah said, 'I'd take the same course Dr Tamaguchi has.

it's probably the Russian military, in which you're allowed to smile only when you shoot someone or successfully invade another country.

make us humbler and give us a better chance of avoiding the arrogance that would destroy our world as they destroyed theirs. The Nihilim, those you call the Screamers

Dorian Purcell, working with a federal agency, funded a reckless research project into the engineering of the human genome and sited the work in rural Utah—but now people were dying here. Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction.

His second novel spent one week on the bestseller list, sold forty thousand copies

The cause of death was drowning.

until delusion becomes mass insanity. Whole societies do go mad.

Sarah seems to be Sarah now, but what will she be two hours from now

On Religion: I'm reluctant to believe that some statue of the Holy Mother wept real tears in a church in Cincinnati or Peoria or Teaneck last week after the Wednesday-night bingo games, witnesses only by two teenagers and the parish cleaning lady. And I'm not ready to believe that a shadow resembling Jesus, cast on someone's garage wall by a yellow bug light, is a sign of impending apocalypse. God works in mysterious ways, but not with bug lights and garage walls. Dean Koontz Cold Fire

A terrible darkness has fallen upon us, but we must not surrender to it. We shall lift lamps of courage and find our way through to the morning. —Anonymous member of the French Resistance (1943)

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

then went to the refrigerator and got a small bottle full of blood.

His third never made the list, sold fifteen thousand copies, and was savaged by critics.

A boater spotted Walsh's body floating in the lake, wearing his pajamas.

Colt had never shown fear, never issued a complaint about pain, remained always the definition of stoic. This wasn't merely a scream of pain