Quotes from Dean Koontz

surely every human being on the planet had the same potential to be telepathic.

The romantic fragrances of yellowing paper

we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved . . . well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.

Worstead exists

Pathoformic.

there is only misery in hoping for the wrong thing.

Go to Hell." "I'm sure you can give me good directions.

Haters lived to hate, to exercise power over those they hated. They were obsessive about it. Focused. Relentless.

Even bad guys," Roy said patiently, "deserve compassion. This man has suffered. You can see that. I need to get my hands on him, yes, and be sure that society's safe from him—but he still deserves to be treated with compassion, with as much mercy as possible.

Lee Shacket

If the installation is under the auspices of the EPA, the CDC, the NSA, the CIA, or some federal black-op outfit

She might lose everything, including her island and, for a time, her freedom.

Sometimes life seemed to be a machine designed to crush dreams as effectively as a junkyard hydraulic press crumpled cars into compact cubes.

at that point when friends and loved ones began to pass away ever more frequently. The essential loneliness that was a key thread in the weave of life, which everyone strove not to think about, now became a truth that she could no longer avoid considering.

What's he a mix of—fox with fox?

which was named after the Roman god Mercury.

Nevertheless, he didn't take offense at being an object of suspicion, because such scrutiny was a wise protocol. Ganesh Patel rarely took offense at anything; to do so was a waste of emotional energy. Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.

Maybe he had endured tragedies and pain, numerous injustices and insults. She didn't give a damn. Join the club; that was the human condition. What mattered wasn't what they did to you, but whether you rose above the level of the users and tormentors—or whether you became one of them and did so with dark glee.

Friendship is an illusion.. Like love and compassion!

I was finally convinced of something I had suspected for a long time: God has a sense of humor, and because the world is wondrous, God expects us to find reasons to smile even on the darkest days.

Everyone who was murdered in Pinehaven County or died by accident received the personal attention of Carson Conroy, who had come here to escape the senseless violence of the city.

The stranger has gone to the back of the vehicle. "He's trying the liftgate," Libby says.

Mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.

was the messenger of other gods, valued for his tremendous speed;