Quotes from Dean Koontz

She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be. She

With a cry of alarm, he bolted to the bathroom and made it with not a second to spare. He seemed to be on the throne long enough to have witnessed the rise and fall of an empire.

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

Truths we don't want to hear always make the teller ugly to us.

It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.

Humor, faith, courage, compassion – these don't rot and vanish;

Taciturnity sometimes could be a sign of a healthy ego that did not require constant gratification

When it reached him, the dog settled on its belly, then rolled onto its back with all four legs in the air, making itself vulnerable. It gave him a look that was full of love, trust, and a little fear. Crazily

For the first time in three years, Travis Cornell felt needed, felt a deep connection with another living creature. For the first time in three years, he had a reason to live. He

because the moon has always been to him the lamp of wisdom, a symbol of the right way to see the world.

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity. He said that because we live in time, we think that the past is baked and served and eaten, that the present is coming out of the oven in continuous courses, and that the future is not yet even in the mixing bowl.

But sometimes I knew things with my heart that my mind could not explain.

The hospital was drowned in the bottomless silence that fills

the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

Once, when cornered by a pinwheel-eyed man who insisted that the mayor of Los Angeles was not human but a robot controlled by the audioanimatronics department at Disneyland, Joe had lowered his voice and said, with nervous sincerity, "Yes, we've known about that for years. But if we print a word of it, the people at Disney will kill us all." He had spoken with such conviction that the nutball had exploded backward and fled.

In this beautiful but hard world, fate spared no species.

THE HIGH MOON A SILVER coin in the sequined purse of the night

Hatred and anger are only scars upon a beach, while love is the rolling surf that ceaselessly smooths the sand.

I think dogs were put in this world to remind humanity that love, loyalty, devotion, courage, patience, and good humor are the qualities that, with honesty, are the essence of admirable character and the very definition of a life well lived.

Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.

Nowhere can a secret keep Always secret, dark and deep, Half so well as in the past, Buried deep to last, to last. Keep it in your own dark heart. Otherwise the rumors start. After many years have buried Secrets over which you worried, No confidant can then betray All the words you didn't say. Only you can then exhume Secrets safe within the tomb Of memory, of memory, Within the tomb of memory. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

The darkness was not an absence of light, but an absence of meaning, for meaning arose only from the exercise of free will.

On the quantum level, reality is spookily fragile and can be manipulated. By whom? By us. —Ganesh

Throughout their seven years of marriage, they had conducted their lives by different clocks. She dwelled as much in the future as in the present, envisioning where she wished to go, relentlessly mapping the path that ought to lead to her high goals. Her strong mainspring was wound tight. Neil lived in the moment. To him, the far future was next week, and he trusted time to take him there whether or not he planned the journey. They