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81 " Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army. "
― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)
82 " Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this world is intended to toughen us for the next life. She says that our honesty, integrity, courage, and determined resistance to evil are evaluated at the end of our days here, and that if we come up to muster, we will be conscripted into an army of souls engaged in some great mission in the next world. Those who fail the test simply cease to exist. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)
83 " Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens. "
― Dean Koontz , The Good Guy
84 " ...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Apocalypse (Odd Thomas, #5)
85 " We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable. "
86 " Where does fiction end and reality begin? "
― Dean Koontz , False Memory
87 " Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces. "
88 " If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself. "
― Dean Koontz , The City (The City, #1)
89 " Our 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 , Deeply Odd (Odd Thomas, #6)
90 " All 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 , Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)
91 " Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year. "
92 " Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it. "
― Dean Koontz
93 " Her 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. "
94 " It's only life. We all get through it. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Hours (Odd Thomas, #4)
95 " The 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. "
96 " She 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 , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)
97 " Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule. "
98 " What 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? "
99 " I 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. "
100 " Hope, love and faith are in the waiting. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude #1 (Odd Thomas, #4.1)