Quotes from Dean Koontz

we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

ameliorated

Even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites—but often thwarts—our investigation and our understanding.

You could withdraw, remake your life with a small circle of friends who didn't wish to silence and punish their fellow countrymen with whom they disagreed, who knew the grievous threat to peace that arose from contempt for others, from an inflated self-esteem that became vainglory. But there was no town remote enough, no fortress walls high enough to protect you from mad ideas with mass appeal

Variety is not the spice of life. It is the mother of disorder. Individuality is not the hallmark of freedom. It is the essence of decadence. Freedom is slavery to chaos. Unity is peace, all thinking and acting as one.

He doesn't know who pays for what he needs.

Sheriff Hayden Eckman

In fact, although it isn't profound, there are worse mottoes to live by than "We might as well eat.

Believe me, you still have a long way to fall, a very long way.

MATHEMATICIAN

On those rare occasions when he is arrested, charges are quietly dropped

When a society erases its past, for whatever reason," she said, "it cannot have a future.

Atropos was the goddess who cut the thread of life.

The owner, Julius Shimski, knew everything anyone could know about all things old—coins

I want them dead.

meaning is everywhere contested. Each of their missions is instead meant to bring truth and its consequences into the life of someone who has woven a persona of lies, thereby putting an end to his or her crimes. There's no doubt that Lucia deserves to be terrified

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

subatomic particles

Do you know the fable titled 'The Vain Wolf and the Lion'?

mercilessly by the judge who dismisses the charges as "utterly without merit, based on manufactured evidence

She realized then that madness and sanity were two worlds separated from each other by no more than a single step.

Sometimes a girl who doesn't like guns is nevertheless obliged to carry one if she's got any common sense at all.

Like his more engaging story, mine suggests that the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time

So the peacemakers were bomb makers." "A lot of people these days are the opposite of what they say they are, and a lot of them probably don't even realize it. They're opposed to racism even as they act like racists. They're opposed to fascism, even as they act like fascists. The world's gone weird.