Quotes from Dean Koontz

Isolation is a wall against fear and despair. Only nature, quiet, and time for reflection can heal her. If she can be healed.

never come across a footprint other than one of her own.

Beneficiary of a seven-figure trust fund, destined to inherit a greater fortune

not the perpetrators claimed a just and noble cause. Throughout history, whole societies that seemed stable have imploded when self-righteous narcissists, enflamed by insane ideologies, so threatened the larger population of the sane that soon everyone feared to stand against the violence, whereupon madness accelerated.

He's not just your standard-issue cult con man who convinced a bunch of weak-minded followers that he has a direct line to God. He pretty much thinks he is a god, a god of sorts, immortal or destined to be. His PR became his dream of who he was, and his dream evolved into a toxic fantasy, and the fantasy became his truth. He's enchanted by all the lies that are his life.

I was sent out of county to Mater Misericordiæ, an orphanage run by Catholic nuns in Phoenix.

thought of the Roman deity Diana, goddess of the moon

I had only asked God for a time-out, which had been granted, but now the clock was ticking again.

It ain't a lie that's gonna put me in the pit with Al Capone, but it's one step on a slippery slope I been down before.

to preserve freedom and stave off a cruel totalitarian future, respect for truth must be restored.

A man's life can pivot on the smallest hinge of time. No minute is without potential for momentous change, and each tick of the clock might be the voice of Fate whispering a promise or a warning.

Bohr orbits

the Blue Ribbon Inn, no ID is required because Ace of Diamonds prepaid and made certain other arrangements with the management

People would be forced to confront the daunting fact that the truth they claimed to pursue and cherish was in fact a burden that they most often chose not to carry, that the lies they insisted they despised were instead often preferred to hard facts and cold reality.

After twenty-six months on Jacob's Ladder, her fear has largely faded

Parker possesses the resources to acquire whatever he wants

it was clear to Jane that Sara, in spite of her intelligence and fortitude, had internalized those words and could not bleach them from the stained self-image with which Simon had left her.

Carl Jung. He theorized, among other things, that mind and matter are entwined, that as individuals and as a community of minds, we can affect reality, even unconsciously create it.

The excessive passion of your yearning could blind you to the mistakes you made, so that in the end, you were defeated by the sheer power of your need.

George Alexander, chief of the Nevada bureau of the Network

By the time I was six, it became clear that I was not adoptable.

Nameless has no credit cards. He rarely carries identification of any kind, not even in false names.

She is not happy, nor is she unhappy; she takes pleasure in her endurance.

This country is ours. America is over. Arcadia is rising in its place.