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181 " There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. "
― Dean Koontz , The City (The City, #1)
182 " Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)
183 " Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires... "
― Dean Koontz , Deeply Odd (Odd Thomas, #6)
184 " Small-town boy meets big-time evil. "
― Dean Koontz , Saint Odd (Odd Thomas, #7)
185 " Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. "
186 " Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, make sit impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole. "
187 " ...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)
188 " Evil never dies. It just changes faces. "
― Dean Koontz , Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)
189 " We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people. "
― Dean Koontz , Life Expectancy
190 " Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killer's ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of truth...the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder. "
― Dean Koontz , Your Heart Belongs to Me
191 " 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 , The Dead Town (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #5)
192 " Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Apocalypse (Odd Thomas, #5)
193 " Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom. "
― Dean Koontz , Star Quest
194 " Hope lies in action "
― Dean Koontz , False Memory
195 " Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one. "
― Dean Koontz , Winter Moon
196 " We ate food that wasn't healthy. We let dirty dishes stack up in the sink. We slept too much.We talked about everything, everything but the slaughter at the mall. Our past, our future. We planned. We dreamed. "
197 " The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert. "
198 " But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern "
199 " Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on sighs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment. "
200 " The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people’s litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction. "