Quotes from Dean Koontz

hesitates only a moment before opening the door.

No doubt about it this time—trespassers have violated her property.

Moloch. That's the code name that Ringrock's masters of science have given to the subject of their research

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

upon all the doors of my defenses, chasing out my expectations of civilization and letting in the fear of anarchy and barbaric violence.

the rejection hurt.

All matter, when seen at its root, arises out of a base web that has all the characteristics of thought waves.

Stormy believed that we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure. To be with her again, I will have the perseverance of a bulldog, but it seems to me that the training is unnecessarily hard.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are.

Doctor, he's going to be all right, isn't he? He won't-he won't die, will he? Apparently, James Keene was aware that his naturally glum face and drooping eyes presented, merely in repose, an expression that did little to inspire confidence. He cultivated a warm smile, a soft yet confident tone of voice, and an almost grandfatherly manner that, although perhaps calculated, seemed genuine and helped balance the perpetual gloom God had seen fit to visit upon his countenance.

Untuk segala sesuatu ada masanya. Ada waktu untuk membunuh dan ada waktu untuk menyembuhkan.

The micro recorder is in the same box, sans batteries.

hope knowing this doesn't diminish your love of the island.

He believed in only five things—violence, sex, money, snakes, and intuition—and he believed in them profoundly, passionately.

Meanwhile, she is not being allowed to flee.

The woman in the hallway looks like Sarah, except she appears to be scared shitless

A child can love a mother who has no capacity to love him in return, but in time, he realizes that he is pouring his affection not on fertile ground but on rock, where nothing can be grown. A child might then spend a life defined by settled anger or by self-pity. If the mother is not a monster, if she is instead emotionally disconnected and self-absorbed, and if she

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

were half dead from too little water

The day in Pico Mundo when I lost Stormy will forever be the worst day of my life, although since then each place I go seems in one way or another to be darker than the place before it.

He dared not ask for details of the cruelties that she had visited upon their daughter. For the first time, Brian realized that, if he were privy to all the facts, he might be driven to kill this woman.

Not at all," she assures him.

Libby has to trust her only friend, even though she doesn't know Sarah's true name.

The fat moon is past the apex of its arc, rolling westward like a coin following a groove toward a slot, and when it drops, perhaps the vending machine that is this mysterious world will dispense an item so rich in truth that humanity can begin to be cured by it.