02UndatedThat is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
03UndatedBeing alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
04UndatedHow obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
05UndatedTo many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
06UndatedThe geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
07Undatedthe divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
08UndatedMoney 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.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
11UndatedShe was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
12UndatedIn a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
13UndatedA fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
14UndatedThen what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
15UndatedI am the One, and I see all.But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
16UndatedIn spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
17UndatedNever leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
18UndatedSome people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
19UndatedEvery expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
20UndatedTommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
21Undatedpeople have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none existDean Koontz / quote ↗
22UndatedGiven enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peaceDean Koontz / quote ↗
23UndatedHe once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
24UndatedHe's got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes what's happening, the dude is all over her like fat on cheese.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
