Quotes from Dean Koontz

To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be with us in the future until the end point. Only time conquers time and its burdens. There is no grief before or after time, which is all the consolation we should need.

Every palace and every work of art is only dust as yet unrealized, and time is the patient wind that will whither it all away.

I feel like I've been sliding all day.

Faith is a kind of love, you know. Love of what is unseen but certain. Love makes us strong and brave.

Everyone thinks his family is strange, Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, but it's just that... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

The life of a seamstress is no smaller than the life of a queen, the life of a child with Down syndrome no less filled with promise than the life of a philosopher, because the only significant measure of your life is the positive effect you have on others, either by conscious acts of will or by unconscious example.

when one day ends, the next begins, for in this infinite universe there is no final conclusion to anything, definitely not to hope.

By the time Bibi reached her bedroom, she understood as never before that home wasn't a place but rather a place in the heart. In this troubled world, everything was transient except what we could carry with us in our minds and hearts. Every home ceased to be a home sooner or later, but not with its demolition. It survived destruction as long as just one person who had loved it still lived. Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened.

Stories were as delicious as food. As important as food. Bella could not live without stories. Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine. You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.

Under her restlessness and licentious pose is a repressed wholesomeness that will always make her regret devaluing herself, which, even in these strange times, he believes is true of more people than not. "Veronica," she says, referring to another waitress, "says you look dangerous. But the girl has zero spirit of adventure." "Good for her," Nameless says. "Girls who

GUILT SPILLS ITSELF IN FEAR OF BEING SPILT

say, "Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood. But what do I know of real people or the world, considering my strange existence?

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognise, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years.

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness.

You'll b-b-be sorry. A g-g-girlfriend will w-walk away sooner or later, but a g-good comic b-b-b-book c-can be enjoyed over and over again.

Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever — no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all.

Fear is essential to force societal change. Citizens subjected to unrelenting terror are more likely to surrender their selfish freedoms in the interest of a better world for all.

Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way.

He's a hollow man, he believes in nothing. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.

Fannie Ann Tatas

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. People are doing the Devil's work everywhere you go; there's no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone.

Intuition is the highest form of knowledge. What we learn from others can be mistaught by those not a fraction as knowledgeable as they pretend or by those who are propagandists with agendas. We are born with intuition, however, which includes the natural law, a sense of right and wrong.

The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you're playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.