Quotes from Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.