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1 " Cornell knew that most people thought he was strange, even creepy. He'd been diagnosed with Asperger's disorder and various forms of autism. Maybe all those diagnoses were correct or maybe none were. His IQ was very high, and he'd made a lot of money while sitting alone in a room, developing apps that had proved enormously popular. When he was rich, no less than when he'd been poor, people thought he was strange, even creepy. "
― Dean Koontz , The Forbidden Door (Jane Hawk, #4)
2 " Her grief was now doubled by his grief. She wondered how many heartbreaks a child so young could endure. "
3 " Life is finding people you love and then losing them, sometimes after sixty years, sometimes after a few months or even a week, all the loss meant to keep you humble and remind you that your life is likewise stamped with an expiration date, so that you’ll use your days to the best of your ability, in the service of what is good. "
4 " THE HIGH MOON A SILVER coin in the sequined purse of the night, "
5 " This is a world of lies and always has been. We live in a time of even greater deceptions than in centuries past. So much of what we're told, what we see on TV, what we read in the newspapers or on the Internet, is invented to conceal the truth, protect the wicked, increase the power of those who already have more power than all the kings of history combined.""I don't disagree," she said. "But what does that have to do with the price of a pistol? "
6 " The world is as ephemeral as a dream, each moment of the day but a mirage within an infinite honeycomb of mirages. The only thing about himself that he can say exists, with certainty, is his mind wrapped in the illusion of his physical body. He thinks; therefore, he is. But his body, his life, his country, and his world are all illusion. "
7 " Judge Sheila Draper-Cruxton. "
8 " Beware actors who can be anyone they wish to be; they are in fact no one at all, cold and empty, though they can be pied pipers to the masses. "
9 " In time, that festival of flesh is going to inspire a butt-horn serenade, and Jergen lacks a gas mask. "
10 " A passion to rule, to tear down society and remake it more to their liking, a passion to silence all dissent and to make a world in which they wouldn’t have to hear an opinion at variance with their own. The passion for destruction always has more appeal to more people than does the passion to preserve and build. It’s an ugly truth of human nature. Passion, sir. The kind of raw passion that breeds ruthlessness "
11 " Get real, my friend. If this is a crime scene and if the girl is attractive, her looks could have something to do with why she was murdered. A former husband. A jealous boyfriend. "
12 " every closet door a potential lid to a lethal jack-in-the-box. "
13 " ...and a snake of pale smoke uncoils like a cobra swaying to a flute. "
14 " quivery thermals rising from the blacktop, like spirits liberated from graves beneath the pavement… "
15 " Condition White, one of the four Cooper Color Codes describing levels of situational awareness "
16 " Always before, Cornell had liked everything to be just the same today as it had been yesterday, and he had hoped tomorrow would be the same as today. Now everything was different, and he wanted tomorrow to be the same kind of different as today. On the other hand, if things could get so different from one day to the next, they could get different all over again and maybe the next time in not such a nice way. "
17 " Sir, with all due respect, if you’ve just got to be in Killeen inside an hour, may I suggest you best stick a propeller in your ass and fart your way there. "