Quotes from Dean Koontz

Everyone is damaged, but the heart can be repaired.

Patience, steadiness, and hope are healthier than anger;

Two fine men died during the construction of this building.

Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable. After

the single-story house

Balzac had written, "Behind every great fortune, there is a crime," which was both a cliché and a lie. However

Look at those hands, Oh God, those hands toiled to raise me. —Elvis Presley at his mother's casket

Denial endures because it soothes.

Repeatedly during her trek from grotto to bungalow

a long fall from thirty or forty stories, a short span of seconds

Can I help you?" Katie asks as she and Libby approach him.

Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

These days cream seldom rose in the intelligence community – but crap still floated.

thaumaturge

Sometimes, out in the night, on the dark beach, when the sky is clear and the vault of stars makes me feel simultaneously mortal and invincible, when the wind is still and even the sea is hushed as it breaks upon the shore

She sat watching the street and its businesses melt away in the thick tides of mist, partially re-form, and melt away again, over and over, as if some celestial power had ordered the end of the world but kept having second thoughts.

No helicopters are aloft. If boats ply the lake, they do so without running lights.

she halts, gripped by the intuitive perception that her island has changed.

He turns to consider them with disapproval.

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

improvisator.

The penitent face of the religieuse collapsed into the greedy hookworm maw, as though it ate its own false countenance

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy—well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh.

She's not seen it a tenth this bright on any previous night.