Quotes from Dean Koontz

Moving room to room, she lowers the pleated shades at all the windows.

Even though comfort based on an illusion is itself illusory, it is for a while a deliverance from the anxiety and existential dread that the world today can generate in abundance.

environmental effects of the flatulence of cattle, don't be. It's a myth. What'll kill us all is the flatulence of politicians.

as a junior, he graduates with the senior class

How is always less important than why.

Evil can disguise itself in piety and charity

I think you look adorable. Get real, odd one. I look like a goth Gidget.

In life, deep and terrible secrets are usually revealed not when you're searching for them, but when you least expect them and are unprepared.

You need somebody to work for besides who pays you, somebody special to build something with, to share a future with.

He currently calls himself Ben Shepherd. A magazine left on the bus by a previous passenger featured an article about a police dog

In her countless long walks over these one hundred and thirty acres

No foster family was willing to take in a three-day-old

should know. Though

wouldn't that be ironic—run down by a hearse? God knows, life is often ironic in a way it's never shown on television.

pedantically

a German shepherd—that lost one leg in a violent encounter

rotten as the minds of those who believe they can learn all that exists to be known and can control anything they wish to control, who believe that it is their right, above the rights of all other men and women, to shape the destinies of their neighbors, cities, nations, and the Earth entire, according to their whims.

She's not a prepper, though she makes preparations.

she lowers the pistol. She watches the precisely arrayed drones slowly fading to the northeast.

Watches and clocks measure our perception of time, not time itself.

The dog's name is Ben.

Come to me.

The release from action and suffering, release from the inner and the outer compulsion.

she mainlines books as though they're heroin.