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Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5) QUOTES

Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5) QUOTES

1 " She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

2 " Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

3 " My only armor is my belief that life has meaning... "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

4 " She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

5 " We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

6 " She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

7 " Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

8 " ...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

9 " But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

10 " Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

11 " Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

12 " My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

13 " If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

14 " Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

15 " Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved... "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

16 " Not many years ago, nearly 100 percent of people who thought they were being constantly watched were certifiable paranoids. But recently it was revealed that, in the name of public safety, Homeland Security and more than a hundred other local, state, and federal agencies are operating aerial surveillance drones of the kind previously used only on foreign battlefields— at low altitudes outside the authority of air-traffic control. Soon, the bigger worry will not be that, as you walk your dog, you are secretly being watched but that the rapidly proliferating drones will begin colliding with one another and with passenger aircraft, and that you’ll be killed by the plummeting drone that was monitoring you to be sure that you picked up Fido’s poop in a federally approved pet-waste bag. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

17 " ...I can't allow myself to be wary of one place merely because it reminds me of another place where I almost died, because just about every place reminds me of another place... "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

18 " I know what it's like to desperately need help, and what I think is it would feel really good to be on the other side, to be able to give help to people who need it, desperately or otherwise. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

19 " Like all of us, I was born for joy. This broken world, however, breaks most of us, grinding relentlessly on its metaled tracks. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)

20 " Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried. If we are good at waiting, we discover that what we wanted of the future, in our impatience, is no longer what we want, that waiting has brought wisdom. I have become good at waiting, as I wait to see what action or sacrifice is wanted of me, wait to discover where I must go next, and wait for the day when the fortuneteller's promise will be fulfilled. Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting. "

― Dean Koontz , Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas, #4.5)