Quotes from Dean Koontz

As long as we're not soaked in blood and trying to stuff our intestines back into our bodies through a gut wound, we'll be okay.

I didn't mind dying—and being reunited with Stormy, whether in Heaven or in the unknown great adventure she calls "service"—but not until the threat to the children had been identified and met.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. You can't worry about them for a minute. They're hopeless.

Parents pass their genes vertically to their offspring.

I've read more truth in fiction than in nonfiction, partly because fiction can deal with the numinous, and nonfiction rarely does.

An outboard racer. The drive shaft pulled up and secured.

Every year in this war and that, even in our own cities, countless children are killed, while those who spray the bullets—or plant the roadside bomb, authorize the use of nerve gas, send the drone with the Hellfire missile that strikes the wrong target—shed not a tear, referring to those tender deceased as mere "collateral damage," if they acknowledge

indomitability.

He drops the pistol into the right-hand pocket of his raincoat. He is not expecting trouble. Nevertheless, he goes nowhere unarmed. One can never be too careful. Besides, opportunities often arise unexpectedly. In

Shivering pleasantly, Vince plucked the car keys off the floor where the dead man had dropped them, went into the garage, and opened the Cadillac's trunk, being careful not to touch any surface on which he might leave a clear fingerprint. The trunk was empty. Good. He carried Weatherby's corpse out of the laundry room, put it in the trunk, closed and locked the lid

Archaea pass genetic material horizontally, from one species to another. Their mysterious role in the development of life on Earth is only beginning to be understood, and perhaps it is madness to seek to harness them for the purpose of improving the human genome and extending the human life span.

The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

To an extent, his good looks would insulate him from suspicion, for in this new century, image trumped substance and appearance often mattered more than truth.

no one would believe the goblins were eventually going to attempt to kill her.

Teach us… To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest… —St. Ignatius Loyola

Your faith could have no substance if you did not also accept the reality of its effects in this world.

Part-time deputy. You know his main job?" "Yes. He teaches sixth grade at Worstead Elementary.

On the road again, past the jerkwater called Warm Springs, heading toward Tonopah on federal highway 6

fata morgana

Wallace Beebs came quickly in response

Two lawmen, one also a teacher. What's happening to the world, Mr. Shepherd? Is it all falling apart?

Mozart's concerto K. 453

That and loneliness.

the recognition of Evil, not as it was portrayed by Disney villains, but as it was in fact: ruthless and irrational, selfish above all else, convinced of its righteousness and of the beauty of disorder.