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21 " What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end. "
― Dean Koontz , Velocity
22 " For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE. "
― Dean Koontz , The Darkest Evening of the Year
23 " Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart. "
― Dean Koontz , Intensity
24 " When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster. "
― Dean Koontz , A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
25 " A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside. "
― Dean Koontz , The Husband
26 " The dead are merely the countrymen of my future. "
― Dean Koontz , Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
27 " That 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 , Winter Moon
28 " How 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 , False Memory
29 " To 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. "
30 " The 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. "
31 " the 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 , What the Night Knows (What the Night Knows, #1)
32 " Money 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 , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)
33 " In this world only the paranoid survive. "
― Dean Koontz , Midnight
34 " She 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 , Lightning
35 " A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. "
36 " Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know. "
― Dean Koontz , Demon Seed
37 " In 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
38 " Never 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. "
39 " Some 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. "
40 " Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth. "