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41 " Tommy 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 , Tick Tock
42 " people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist "
― Dean Koontz , Watchers
43 " Given 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 peace "
― Dean Koontz , The Good Guy
44 " He'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 , Seize the Night (Moonlight Bay, #2)
45 " Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them. "
― Dean Koontz , The Darkest Evening of the Year
46 " What has been is no more. Change has come. "
― Dean Koontz , Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #3)
47 " It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love, "
48 " Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring. "
49 " ...any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity... "
― Dean Koontz
50 " Art is the only answer to chaos and the void. "
― Dean Koontz , Velocity
51 " ...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOONChapter 27 Page 214 "
― Dean Koontz , By the Light of the Moon
52 " ...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared. "
― Dean Koontz , Winter Moon
53 " A high degree of intelligence yes in no other creature in the natural world. That's why nature shuns us and why we subconsciously hate her and seek to obliterate her. High intelligence leads to the concept of progress. Progress leads to nuclear weapons, bio-engineering chaos and ultimately to annihilation. "
― Dean Koontz , Cold Fire
54 " Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated. "
55 " He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face. "
― Dean Koontz , What the Night Knows (What the Night Knows, #1)
56 " I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself. "
― Dean Koontz , Saint Odd (Odd Thomas, #7)
57 " I'd always had an ear for beauty, and maybe I'd had an eye for it as well, but until that day, I'd not recognized that the truth in great music could be found also in great art, that the heart could be lifted and the mind sharpened equally by both. "
― Dean Koontz , The City (The City, #1)
58 " Do not doubt the beauty of your heart. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Apocalypse (Odd Thomas, #5)
59 " Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude #1 (Odd Thomas, #4.1)
60 " In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but that is not a bad thing. If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Hours (Odd Thomas, #4)