01c. 1945 ADEach book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
02c. 1945 ADAnd because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
03c. 1945 ADThen perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
04c. 1945 ADA sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
05c. 1945 AD...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
06c. 1945 ADEven if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
07c. 1945 ADKnowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...Dean Koontz / quote ↗
08c. 1945 ADIt's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
11c. 1945 ADLiving in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
13c. 1945 ADAcknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
14c. 1945 ADIf an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
15c. 1945 ADBlood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...Dean Koontz / quote ↗
16c. 1945 ADLife had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
17c. 1945 ADStormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this world is intended to toughen us for the next life. She says that our honesty, integrity, courage, and determined resistance to evil are evaluated at the end of our days here, and that if we come up to muster, we will be conscripted into an army of souls engaged in some great mission in the next world. Those who fail the test simply cease to exist.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
18c. 1945 ADAppearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
20c. 1945 ADWe make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
22c. 1945 ADHuman beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
23c. 1945 ADIn his mind he saw them standing with the tips of their organs pressed together ejaculating into each other's penis.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
24c. 1945 ADIf you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
