Quotes from Dean Koontz

In the past ten years there had been truly amazing advances in those areas of research – psychopharmacology, biochemistry, psychosurgery, clinical psychology – that directly and indirectly contributed to the less reputable but nonetheless hotly pursued science of mind control.

Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These cold questions echo and resound Through each day, each lonely night. We long to find the splendid light That will cast a revelatory beam Upon the meaning of the human dream. – The Book of Counted Sorrows

subatomic particles aren't fixed.

A mere billionaire is a nobody among the princes of high tech. In spite of their pretensions to social equality, many of this crowd are among the most class-conscious elite bigots the world has ever known.

would be good to have reached an age when she'd have the option of boozing herself into a sound sleep.

Joel Bandiri

stamps, paintings—not least of all because he was eighty-nine and had spent his life learning.

nonplussed.

He has no master here. He is an independent agent and pursues his own agenda.

I'd fled from Death to this haven, but of course in running from him, I had only run into his arms.

when we're plodding along from breakfast to bedtime in a reassuringly familiar routine.

He is the CEO of Refine, a multibillion-dollar division of a mega-valued conglomerate.

By relocating from this world to the one where Jeffy and Amity yearned for her, she'd be taking an action that would spawn other parallel lives for herself, of which she, in this incarnation, had no knowledge. Other than her husband and daughter, whose lives would be affected by her action, how many others would live additional lives that branched from her action, and did it matter?

The scream that shatters through the house has motive force, pivoting Libby away from the window

They were good at enduring: adversity was the touchstone by which they proved their value to themselves.

Joel was an odd little man: five feet four, slightly chubby but not fat

Just say perplexed or bewildered, even confused, but never nonplussed.

Beware actors who can be anyone they wish to be; they are in fact no one at all, cold and empty, though they can be pied pipers to the masses.

presentiment

Ringrock is not a prison.

Libby believes that she hears her mother's voice submerged in the louder shriek

and about two hundred thousand dollars' worth of rings.

The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

Most likely, she's witnessing not an escape, but a penetration.