Quotes from Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

Fate isn't one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.