Home > Work > The Complete Odd Thomas Series
1 " Because knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world, I know the names of many trees; but I did not know the name of this one and could not recall having seen one like it before. "
― Dean Koontz , The Complete Odd Thomas Series
2 " Kate DiCamillo. They are The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and The Tale of Despereaux, "
3 " The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people’s litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction. "
4 " Edmund Burke provided the answer in 1795: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "
5 " The government will decide that the public prefers to remain ignorant of such disturbing near disasters, and the political class prefers to keep them ignorant "
6 " There’s only so much eating a man can do to keep the world at bay before he loses all taste for food. "
7 " But loons are loons wherever they nest; they don’t alter their voices to conform to the landscape. They’re birds, not politicians. "
8 " Hard luck seemed to seep out of the ground itself, as though the devil’s rooms in Hades were directly beneath these streets, his sleeping loft so near the surface that his fetid breath, expelled with every snore, percolated through the soil. "