Quotes from Dean Koontz

is not an active tormentor but a passive observer in the home, her child has a third option. He can choose to grant her mercy without pardon, and find compassion for her in recognition that her stunted emotional development denies her the fullest enjoyment of life.

Laughter wasn't just a medicine for melancholy, but also a sword raised against evil. A laugh said, You can't scare me into surrender, I'll fight you hard to the end.

The faintest scraping-ticking arose as the knuckles of the hinge leafs turned against pivot pins in need of oil, and the door swung ever so slowly into the kitchen

But you have to choose happiness.

Easy hope was usually false hope.

She listens to Walsh describe a boat that he observed passing Oak Haven Island;

Because Mitch would not have life without his mother and because her cluelessness did not encompass malice, she inspired a tenderness that was not love or even affection. It was instead a sad regard for her congenital incapacity for sentiment. This tenderness had nearly ripened into the pity that he withheld from his father.

One of the three candles burned out, and darkness eagerly pulled its chair a little closer to the table.

There's nowhere on Earth where people haven't died in sorry ways.

it's likely that Francesca isn't even human anymore

real father, his only father." I was

He descended the ramp, stopped on the sidewalk, and turned to me. "Man, I'm glad you're back." "I'm not back yet," I said, "but I will be.

Justice is a human concept, as flawed as any. There is no reliable justice in this world and, given human nature, never can be. Politics, bigotry, envy, ignorance . . . Those forces and others redefine justice day by day, until it means something different to everyone—until it means nothing at all.

Membela diri adalah salah satu dorongan yang paling kuat yang diberikan Tuhan kepada kita. Kita diciptakan untuk bertahan hidup, walaupun jika kita harus membunuh seseorang dalam prosesnya. Tina

Loneliness is the fate of he who dares to change the world.

According to the EPA, all the booming was—I quote—'only mechanical sonic devices that simulate

She steps into the hallway and rushes after the woman.

didn't come for a loan," Mitch assured him. "In every species of animal, the primary obligation of parents is to teach self-sufficiency to their offspring. The prey must learn evasion, and the predator must learn to hunt.

You're a scary woman, the way you know a man's mind.

Roots like an oak tree, Barney." He

meant to go down to the water and sit in the dock chair, let the blissful tranquility of the lake

They were conducting an experiment to learn to what extent sound has an effect, positive or negative, on algae.

in this world of free will, fate is amorphous.

Parasitism," Daniel said, "isn't natural to Homo sapiens or to any species of mammal." Beaver Cleaver would never have heard that line from his dad.