01c. 1945 ADMore likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
02c. 1945 ADChronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
03c. 1945 ADEventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
04c. 1945 ADBut with one exception, all things pass from this world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument to dust. The only that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries of the universe, the very energy of which all things were conceived and with which all things will be sustained in a world beyond this world of time and dust and forgetting".Dean Koontz / quote ↗
05c. 1945 ADWhen men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief and never really directed solely at the imbalance that supposedly inspired it. The rule of law becomes the rule of violence. Revenge becomes a synonym for justice. No city is safe from such horror, no nation, no time in all of history. Be ready to recognize the moment. Be always ready.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
06c. 1945 ADFrom their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
07c. 1945 ADLife, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
10c. 1945 ADAlthough enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
11c. 1945 ADHoly men tell us life is a mystery.They embrace that concept happily.But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
12c. 1945 ADThe human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
13c. 1945 ADWhen I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again."That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
14c. 1945 ADNow, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is far deeper and more restful than the sleep of the just, the righteous, and the innocent.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
17c. 1945 ADSometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...Dean Koontz / quote ↗
18c. 1945 ADI assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather...the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it-very loose, the line of the law-so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are always-short of the blantant theft or cold-blooded murder-safely on the right side.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
19c. 1945 ADDo as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
20c. 1945 ADThe sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead stars and empty space...Well, I see no reason to persevere, no reason to laugh or shed a tear, no reason to sleep and none to wake/ No promises to keep and none to make. And so at night I still raise my eyes tos tudy the clear but mysterious skies that arch avove us, cold as stone. Are you there God? Are we alone?Dean Koontz / quote ↗
21c. 1945 ADDuty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark poolDean Koontz / quote ↗
22c. 1945 ADIn the war, to survive, you had to be responsible every minute of every day, unhesitatingly responsible for yourself, for your every action. You had to be responsible for your buddies, too, because survival wasn't something that could be achieved alone. That's maybe the one positive thing about fighting in a war - it clarifies your thinking and makes you realize that a sense of responsibility is what separates good men from the damned.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
23c. 1945 ADWe were fortunate his brief psychic vision distracted him from what his fingertips could have told him about my face.Of course we were aware that temporary clairvoyance was a lame and unlikely explanation. The ordering of this world, however is so abstruce, so deep and complex, most explanations that people to make sense of moments of strange experience are inadequate. Our very existence as thinking creatures is an astonishment that cant be solved. Every human cell, with its thousands of protein chains, is more complex than a 747 or the largest cruise ship, in fact more complex than the two combined. All life on earth, in its extravagant variety, offers itself for study, but though we probe to ever deeper layers of its structure, the meaning eludes us.There is no end of wonders and mysteries: fireflies and music boxes, the stars that outnumber all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the world.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
24c. 1945 ADNothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
