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The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5) QUOTES

The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5) QUOTES

1 " The darkness was not an absence of light, but an absence of meaning, for meaning arose only from the exercise of free will. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

2 " Never waste energy beating yourself up. Other people are always standing in line to do it. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

3 " The quarry will be armed with a nine-millimeter Glock featuring a ten-round magazine. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

4 " It’s a war. Mistake a war for an adventure, you won’t live long. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

5 " Maybe he had endured tragedies and pain, numerous injustices and insults. She didn’t give a damn. Join the club; that was the human condition. What mattered wasn’t what they did to you, but whether you rose above the level of the users and tormentors—or whether you became one of them and did so with dark glee. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

6 " This country is ours. America is over. Arcadia is rising in its place. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

7 " not one to dwell on loss, because to dwell on it was to disrespect the gift of life and risk becoming obsessed with the fact that all the losses throughout the years eventually lead to the loss of life itself. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

8 " that she would have steadied him, that with her he would have found greater intellectual and emotional depths in himself than he would ever discover alone. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

9 " Though lovers be lost love shall not; / And death shall have no dominion. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

10 " He ejects the depleted magazine from the "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

11 " The darkness in the footwell seems to be crawling up his legs. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

12 " no attempt at making a utopia on earth has led to other than disaster. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

13 " Evil is always stupid and unimaginative. Creation is the hard thing. Destruction—evil—is easy and boring, the same short list of crimes and cruelties over and over. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

14 " The current culture deviated radically from previous human experience, ruthlessly reducing each woman and man to mere political units to be manipulated, balkanizing them into communities according to their likes and dislikes, so everything from cars to candy bars could be more effectively marketed, robbing them of their privacy, denying them both a real community of diverse views and the possibility of personal evolution by censoring the world they saw through the Internet to make it conform to the preferred beliefs of their self-appointed betters. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

15 " an alliance of convenience with evil of any kind would in time bear toxic fruit. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

16 " Courageous politicians existed, as did albino tigers and two-headed frogs. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

17 " In any crisis situation, the most important thing to do was get off the X, move, because if you weren’t moving away from the threat, someone with bad intentions was for damn sure moving closer to you. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

18 " Wealth and power meant nothing in the long run. What mattered was what you did in private, when no one was looking, when you either lived by the values you claimed in public or you didn’t. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

19 " There was the work you sought in life and the harder work you were given that you wouldn’t have chosen. The truth, if you dared face it, was that you could never know with certainty which work mattered more, which would shape a better future; therefore, you couldn’t focus only on what you wanted and ignore what was needed of you. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

20 " The truth, if you dared face it, was that you could never know with certainty which work mattered more, which would shape a better future; therefore, you couldn’t focus only on what you wanted and ignore what was needed of you. "

― Dean Koontz , The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)