01c. 1945 ADOur culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it is on adults. They are physically weaker than adults, financially dependent, and in times of danger, nothing clarifies our thinking more than an awareness of our extreme vulnerability.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
02c. 1945 ADAll but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
03c. 1945 ADMost people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
04c. 1945 ADRecognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
05c. 1945 ADHer eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
08c. 1945 ADThe dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
09c. 1945 ADShe says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
10c. 1945 ADNothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
11c. 1945 ADWhat was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God - or begging Him to let her son live and to spare her from the life of a cripple? Or was the power behind destiny merely a natural mechanism, a force no different in origin from gravity or magnetism?Dean Koontz / quote ↗
12c. 1945 ADI never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
14c. 1945 ADWaiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
15c. 1945 ADWaiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
16c. 1945 ADThe past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be with us in the future until the end point. Only time conquers time and its burdens. There is no grief before or after time, which is all the consolation we should need.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
17c. 1945 ADIn a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
19c. 1945 ADMost people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and glory, not merely the result of random forces colliding. Yet each time that they are given but one reason to doubt, a worm in the apple of the heart makes them turn away from a thousand proofs of the miraculous, whereupon they have a drunkard's thirst for cynicism, and they feed upon despair as a starving man upon a loaf of bread.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
20c. 1945 ADConsidering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by suicidal types who sooner or later kill themselves with alcohol or drugs, or shotguns, Professor Takuda was a remarkably cheerful man.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
21c. 1945 ADAre you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?Dean Koontz / quote ↗
22c. 1945 ADWords are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
23c. 1945 ADIn tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
24c. 1945 ADFrom birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be.Dean Koontz / quote ↗
