Quotes from Dean Koontz

suffer lasting psychological trauma. Still, I don't think it's a good idea to subject her to an interrogation tonight." "Not an interrogation

The island is Ringrock

She waits until the thing is passing overhead, squeezes off a shot, then a second

By the time he receives a high school degree

The man stands taller and lifts his chin as if posing as Mr. April for a calendar of righteous citizens.

Dawn breaks / And blossoms open / Gates of paradise.

I don't have visions. It was a presentiment. A feeling, an impression.

soon the girls had Barty enthusiastically involved in a make-believe world far different from the one in which Heinlein's teenage lead owned an extraordinary alien pet with eight legs, the temperament of a kitten, and an appetite for everything from grizzly bears to Buicks.

Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals, with loving one place—home—above all others.

anachronistic

scimitar moon

She is a kick-ass kind of girl, who not only knows what she wants, but what she should want, which makes all the difference. When you meet her in service, you'll know her, sure enough. You'll know her, and you'll love her.

was learned from experience, what was intuitively known, and matters of instinct coded in the genes.

this was an America where fascists didn't pretend to be antifascists, didn't conceal their faces behind black masks, operated openly and boldly; this was an America ruled by brute intimidation, harassment, and violence.

THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD. YOU MIGHT have argued against that contention twenty years ago, but if you argue it in our time, you only prove that you, too, live in delusion.

Well," he said, "you can either do the wrong thing and let a loss like that destroy you, or you can do the right thing and be properly grateful for all that came before the loss. Grief should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you're saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don't." He

She'd been only four, much too little to understand what was happening, when her mother walked out. She hardly remembered Michelle. Yet the loss was still with her, not really a pain, more like an emptiness, as if something that ought to be inside of her were missing. She worried that more losses would leave other empty spaces in her, until she would be as hollow as a shell from which the egg had been drained through a pinhole.

Dentists and surgeons frequently used nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. Travis

The price I paid for that lesson has left my heart an almost empty purse, with just two coins or three clinking at the bottom.

It's a war. Mistake a war for an adventure, you won't live long.

with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

she shoots down a megadollar drone that's government property

he's been booted from three expensive private schools.

That's a fox. His tail alone proves it.