Quotes from Dean Koontz

show him the door a year early, the administration concocts an academic record

because the truth of the sender's motives

with decades of sunshine stored in his deeply tanned face.

They had formed an alliance for survival and a covenant of affection against the darkness of the world.

Quinn is a variant of Quentin, it also derives from the Latin quintus, which means "fifth

To be a winner, you gotta be in the game.

Frequently, our mistakes turn out to suggest meaning beyond the fact that we have made an error.

Libraries are packed with biographies of movie stars and politicians, most of them not capable of as much meaningful self-analysis as you'd get from a toad. We don't need to know more about celebrities' lives, Obadiah. What might help us, what might even save us, is knowing more about the lives of real people who've never made it even medium but who know where they came from and why.

She distrusts those who prefer power to money

She returns to her house and locks the thick oak door.

Darkness was conducive to contemplation.

full of classes he has never taken, grades he never earned

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication, because the truth of the sender's motives was inextricably bound up in the emotions that were transmitted with the words.

So perhaps it wasn't my name, but a cryptic message meaning "accelerate five times

Astragalomancy was a method of divining the future or learning hidden knowledge by rolling dice. A ceromancer dropped melted wax into cold water and interpreted the figures thus produced. Halomancy required the reading of the shapes made by casting a handful of salt on a flat surface. A necromancer sought answers by communicating with the dead.

THE DEVIL IS IN THE DIGITAL DATA.

Treat the study as if we're in a Daphne du Maurier novel, as if this house is an alternate-universe version of Manderley, and I am keeping either the murdered and mummified corpse of Rebecca or Mrs. Danvers—or both!—behind that locked door, to spare myself from a long prison sentence.

No matter how attentive their people were, dogs spent more time waiting than doing.

Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

From now on, stay close by my side," Jeffy said. "Don't even think about getting more than an arm's reach away from me.

A BOILERMAKER KILLS GERMS DEAD. Where'd you get that idea? BOOK. WHAT'S BOILERMAKER? Travis said, A shot of whiskey dropped into a glass of beer. Einstein considered that for a moment. KILL GERMS BUT BECOME ALCOHOLIC. Travis laughed and ruffled Einstein's coat. You're a regular comedian, fur face. MAYBE I SHOULD PLAY VEGAS.

His name isn't Hurkos. He doesn't remember his name.

until it isn't.

She isn't a survivalist, but she intends to survive.