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The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1) QUOTES

The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1) QUOTES

1 " If you let the news spoil your appetite, there wouldn’t be a day you could eat. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

2 " Ideas shouldn’t matter more than people.” He "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

3 " ... life is complicated, but if it wasn't complicated, it would be a roller coaster on a flat track. Wouldn't be a ride worth taking. And, yeah, we never fully know ourselves, but that means we're mysterious enough to interest one another. And if we fully knew ourselves in this world, what reason would we have to still be here ? "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

4 " People should matter more than ideas. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

5 " It’s a beautiful, terrible, world, isn’t it? "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

6 " the darkest desire of humankind—to hold absolute power, to control, to command obedience, to eliminate all voices of disagreement and dissent—had found its full expression. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

7 " In this brave new digital world, reality is plastic, and your identity is whatever you wish it to be. As is your future: Wish it, build it, live it. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

8 " Why do some people—so many—need to control others, tell them what to do, use them if they can, destroy those who won’t be used?” She sensed that the question wasn’t rhetorical, that he cared what she would say. “Why Hitler, why Stalin, why Emory Wayne Udell? I don’t know. Demonic influence or just miswired brains? In the end, does it matter which? Maybe what matters is that some of us aren’t broken by it all, that we can take it to the Emory Udells and the William Overtons and the Bertold Shennecks, take it to them and stop them before they can do everything they dream about.” North "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

9 " what might have looked like courage proved to be a deficit of common sense and an excess of self-importance, too strong a faith in his genius and superiority—not courage at all, but the rash actions of an ordinary narcissist incapable of imagining that he might fail. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

10 " When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw. He "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

11 " Canis latrans, "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

12 " though some wicked master of a form of origami akin to quantum mechanics spent the night folding the evils of the world into places that had once been less afflicted by them. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

13 " She also chose snakeskin high-heeled platform shoes with ankle straps. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

14 " Go to Hell.” “I’m sure you can give me good directions. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

15 " If someone had killed Hamlet in the first act, a lot more people would’ve been alive at the end. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

16 " Darkness was conducive to contemplation. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

17 " He looked like the wrathful Old Testament God getting ready to throw down some well-deserved punishment on the earth. “This might be hard to understand, lady. But in war, you do the right thing, whatever it takes, and if you come out alive, you know how easy you could have screwed up, so bragging on it is dead-solid wrong. Only assholes do that. I don’t Facebook. Don’t tweet. Don’t Instagram. I don’t talk about the past, and it pisses me off that you remembered that old DDT thing and were able to find that newspaper photo. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

18 " the more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot.” In "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

19 " The release from action and suffering, release from the inner and the outer compulsion. "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)

20 " deliquescing "

― Dean Koontz , The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)