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Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3) QUOTES

Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3) QUOTES

1 " Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

2 " His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

3 " And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

4 " Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

5 " A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

6 " It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

7 " Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

8 " Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

9 " 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. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

10 " The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is.

To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be with us in the future until the end point. Only time conquers time and its burdens. There is no grief before or after time, which is all the consolation we should need. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

11 " In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to time that is death, the deaths of those we love, but the third and most constant darkness is with us everyday, at all hours of every day, is the darkness of the mind, the pettiness and meanness and hatred, which we have invited into ourselves, and which we pay out with generous interest. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

12 " When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

13 " You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

14 " My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

15 " You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

16 " When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?

Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

17 " Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience... "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

18 " A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

19 " In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)

20 " These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another. This is a big request to make of busy Fate, who has billions of lives to keep in constant turmoil. "

― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)