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61 " His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart. "
― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)
62 " Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore. "
― Dean Koontz , Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)
63 " She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)
64 " This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose "
65 " Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world. "
― Dean Koontz , Deeply Odd (Odd Thomas, #6)
66 " Each 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 , Innocence (Innocence, #1)
67 " And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create. "
68 " Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power. "
69 " A 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. "
70 " ...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner. "
― Dean Koontz , Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #3)
71 " Even 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. "
72 " Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world... "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Apocalypse (Odd Thomas, #5)
73 " It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude #1 (Odd Thomas, #4.1)
74 " It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so. "
75 " A broken thing can't fix itself. "
76 " Living 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. "
77 " Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you. "
78 " Acknowledge 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. "
79 " If 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. "
80 " Blood 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... "