Quotes from Dean Koontz

This next one's by someone named Anatole France. 'To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.'

She also chose snakeskin high-heeled platform shoes with ankle straps.

She stands just outside her door, puzzled, vaguely disquieted.

and they believe he or she might have gotten as far as Jacob's Ladder, her island, her home.

After all I've lost, what's left to lose?

He says, "You have a fox in there.

The human race is at the apex of all life-forms because, no matter how strenuously sociologists and politicians and others of their persuasion insist on defining our species into interest groups and factions and classes and tribes, the better to control us, in truth our greatest strength is in the uniqueness of each of us.

There's maybe ten places in the country where free speech still works, but this isn't one of them.

chose us for service

the nature of the world when you dared to see it clearly: a place of mystery in which extraordinary coincidences were more common than they seemed.

Love is absorbing, related to affection but stronger, full of appreciation for—and delight in—the other person, marked by a desire always to please and benefit her or him, always to smooth the loved one's way through the roughness of the days and to do everything possible to make her or him feel profoundly valued. All

There are numerous tools with which to conceal the truth, although nothing has been quite as effective and reassuring as six or eight or ten feet of compacted earth.

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in

In order to put a curse on someone and be absolutely certain that it would bring about the desired calamity, a Bocor required an icon of the intended victim.

At forty-four, though bitter, she was nonetheless grateful that she hadn't been rendered penniless. Having clawed her way to the top once before, she'd been left with just enough assets to start the climb again. This time she would not make the mistake that had led to her ruin; she would not marry.

a smile in which malice tried to pass as friendly intent, in which amusement was in fact dripping venom.

After you have suffered great losses and known much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to live henceforth with a minimum of suffering. And one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless

He said, "Sometimes it takes a lot of distance to be able to fold a piece of your life into a work of fiction.

A sense of wrongness prickles as if a burr has somehow gotten under her skull.

These are very powerful people.

He lived in this resplendent house with his fiancée, Paloma Pascal

You shouldn't have a fox," the stranger says. "A fox isn't a pet.

Love is absorbing, related to affection but stronger, full of appreciation for—and delight in—the other person, marked by a desire always to please and benefit her or him, always to smooth the loved one's way through the roughness of the days and to do everything possible to make her or him feel profoundly valued

Carson heard that expression more often these days—It is what it is—and it nettled him every time someone spoke it.