Quotes from Dean Koontz

Having found peace in isolation, she won't put it at risk.

for whom arrest warrants were outstanding. He sought the name Nathan Palmer—and began to make a list of curious facts.

NOT DEAD A chill swept down her back.

the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

Humble goals and modest expectations are more likely to be fulfilled than are utopian dreams.

As the universe relentlessly expanded, the stars moved ever farther from Earth, until in a distant time after the end of the human era, maybe the night sky would no longer be richly diamonded, but would offer blackness relieved solely by the moon that reflected the light of the only star that would ever matter, the sun in its

She can be bent so severely that it doesn't seem as though she can ever straighten herself out again, but she always does. She gets on with getting on.

and lustrous and sensuously figured. Dick Dale and the Deltones, the Beach Boys, the Ventures, Santo & Johnny, the Chantays, Jan and Dean for nostalgic background music.

What sucks the worst is…this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

if their business model had been to wait for good people to pay for evil people to be killed, they probably wouldn't have a lot of customers for their service. Good people didn't solve their problems that way. Which was one reason why bad people got away with being bad for so long. He might have continued staring at Enter Your Password and brooding about good and evil, but a strange and disturbing thing happened.

He looks ... chewed.

If we live forever, it doesn't matter so much what happens to us here.

Every period of enlightenment is followed by a new and more efficient barbarism. They preach the necessity of truth even as they flee from it. Some believe in immortality through

thermonuclear decline.

Just then he gets a text message from Ace of Diamonds with a destination. He

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn. My

THE EARLY SKY WAS CLEAR AND DEEP. THE snow-mantled meadow lay as bright and clean as the morning after death, when time will have defeated time and all will have been redeemed.

Is it worth something?" "At retail, from a collector, it would bring forty thousand dollars, maybe a few thousand less.

Her signature style is hyperrealism, an attempt to capture everything a photograph might and then much more: what the mind knows about a scene that the scene itself does not reveal; what the heart feels about the subject before it; how the past lives in the present and how the future looms real but unrevealed; what any moment on the Earth might mean, if it means anything at all.

Ms. Kate DiCamillo

heads east, from which every tomorrow always comes.

The fox rises, changes position, sits on his hindquarters, his glorious tail

A fat woman was dancing the cha-cha with a cat, and a thunderous chorus was singing the praises of Purina Cat Chow.

Anyway, the human heart being what it was, those who erased the past would in fact purge only the wisdom and preserve the evils.