Quotes from Dean Koontz

The house is on a knoll, surrounded on four sides by a yard, on three sides

the sudden arrival of two-legged visitors.

from an age of hope, when honor and a sense that right would always win suffused the land.

The why of a life could never be solved in this world, although vast libraries of solemn books speculated on the meaning and purpose of existence. Nothing could be known other than the what of any single life: what happened, what actions were taken, what events occurred beyond the person's control, what obvious consequences ensued, what impact for better or worse that one life was seen to have on others.

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

science fiction

Like a pair of looms, using sunshine and their own silhouettes, two enormous California live oaks wove veils of gold and purple, which they flung across the driveway.

Henry Ward Beecher once said, "The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.

not one to dwell on loss, because to dwell on it was to disrespect the gift of life and risk becoming obsessed with the fact that all the losses throughout the years eventually lead to the loss of life itself.

Who is more foolish—the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? —MAURICE FREEHILL

by woods beyond the yard.

the watercraft she heard earlier has put to shore at the north end of her property

The vision has passed, but he feels as though he is standing above a void, with nothing to support him, that his fall is about to begin, that he'll shatter his bones on the bloody rack and ruin below.

However, she's now been reminded of what she never should have forgotten—that the true prince of this world isn't Moloch. The prince of this world is the father of lies, and his followers are legion. Those who control the narrative

Our illusion is that we travel through life on a calculated and straight trajectory, from the past through present into future, on a journey to understanding, truth, reward. But by Brownian movement we progress, sent angling off this way and that by the impact of everyone we meet and every event that we cannot foresee.

Sometimes, however, common sense required paranoia. It seemed that the political elites were striving, with admiration for George Orwell and rare unanimity, to ensure that the totalitarian state in the novel 1984 would be realized no later than fifty years after the author predicted. In

At last her mother looks up from the book and smiles and says, "I read to keep from being sad.

something of you, but please believe me, I didn't come to warn you that Beezo is on your doorstep. He

T. S. Eliot: LIFE YOU MAY EVADE, BUT DEATH YOU SHALL NOT.

actually Dorian Purcell.

The front door faces a slope to a shingle shore, a dock, a boathouse, and open water.

Katie hurries toward whatever confrontation awaits.

Every day he gave thanks for his legs, and proved his gratitude by using them.

It was unnerving to have allies who struck you as goofy; it made your own opinions seem suspect.