01c. 1945 ADPeople who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
02c. 1945 ADThe more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
03c. 1945 ADShe 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.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
04c. 1945 ADAh, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
05c. 1945 ADOn the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM.For ever and ever. In the red light, the brushed steel glowed softly, like embers. The polish letters blazed.Without a hiss, For ever and ever slid aside, as though inviting me to eternity.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
06c. 1945 ADGive the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
07c. 1945 ADPeople who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
09c. 1945 ADTo believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
11c. 1945 ADMr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
12c. 1945 ADQuick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...Dean Koontz / quote ↗
13c. 1945 ADOdd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation.Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again.Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around.Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
14c. 1945 ADOn a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
16c. 1945 ADNow take my hand and hold it tight.I will not fail you here tonight,For failing you, I fail myselfAnd place my soul upon a shelfIn Hell's library without light.I will not fail you here tonight.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
17c. 1945 AD...and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
18c. 1945 AD...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
20c. 1945 ADOnce, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever — no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
21c. 1945 ADSully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn't keep its ugly head down and stay in the shadows, when it came right at you with all teeth bared. The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
22c. 1945 ADSome people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
23c. 1945 ADPico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
