Home > Work > Winter Moon
1 " Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better. "
― Dean Koontz , Winter Moon
2 " 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. "
3 " ...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. "
4 " 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. "
5 " People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros. "
6 " Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars. "
7 " Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed. "
8 " Death was driving an emerald-green Lexus. "
9 " He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles along with his money. "
10 " who knew that humanity would one day reach childhood’s end, who believed intellect could triumph over superstition and ignorance, and who dared to dream. "
11 " The world’s crawling with people who don’t respect anyone or anything, but we’re supposed to respect them, have compassion for the killers because they’ve been so poorly treated by life. "
12 " 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 realise that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow were all right. We go on "
13 " politicians were tearing down a thousand years of civilization brick by brick but weren’t building anything to replace it. "
14 " That’s safe,’ Heather assured him. ‘There’s no way into the cellar from outside. "
15 " He had lived a long time and had seen how many lives were ruined by people operating with the best intentions and a smug assurance of their own superiority and wisdom. "
16 " The writers whose books lined his study were those with a crisp, simple style and with no patience for fantasy, men with a cold clear vision, who saw the world for what it was and not for what it might be: men like Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Ford Madox Ford. "
17 " Or maybe, when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and a possible future in the stars. "
18 " No man could survive in civilized comfort without the struggles and hard-won successes of all the people who had gone before him "
19 " Said cops would be expected to hold it all together when it started to collapse, but by then cops would’ve been blamed for so much and been painted as the villains so often, no one would respect them enough to let them hold it together. "
20 " life was absurd, down to the deepest foundations of it, so there was always something funny in the middle of whatever hell was blowing up around you at the moment. "
