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Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1) QUOTES

Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1) QUOTES

1 " People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

2 " As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

3 " Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

4 " The wall clock and her wristwatch had stopped, their sweep hands no longer wiping away the seconds, and the digital clock on the microwave had gone dark, as if something that lived outside of time had stepped into this world and brought its clockless ambiance with it. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

5 " She sat watching the street and its businesses melt away in the thick tides of mist, partially re-form, and melt away again, over and over, as if some celestial power had ordered the end of the world but kept having second thoughts. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

6 " Home is where the heart is. No, nothing quite as simple as that. Home is where you struggle, in a world of endless struggle, to become the best you can be, and it becomes home in your heart only if one day you can look back and say that, in spite of all your faults and failures, it was in this special place where you began to see, however dimly, the shape of your soul. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

7 " You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

8 " Storytelling can heal broken hearts and damaged minds. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

9 " she understood as never before that home wasn’t a place but rather a place in the heart. In this troubled world, everything was transient except what we could carry with us in our minds and hearts. Every home ceased to be a home sooner or later, but not with its demolition. It survived destruction as long as just one person who had loved it still lived. Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

10 " There is no adult terror equivalent to what an innocent child experiences when first confronted with the truth that evil is not merely a figment of fairy tales, that it walks the world in countless forms, and that what it seeks most aggressively is the destruction of the innocent. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

11 " You've got today, and there's all of time and all the world in today. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

12 " Home is where you struggle, in a world of endless struggle, to become the best you can be, and it becomes home in your heart only if one day you can look back and say that, in spite of all your faults and failures, it was in this special place where you began to see, however dimly, the shape of your soul. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

13 " One thing we’ve noticed is these days people see all kinds of things they don’t want to see, so they go blind.”
“Selectively blind. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

14 " Good men and women sought calm, peace, time for reflection. Evil people were eternally restive, intractable, always eager for more thrills, which were the same few thrills endlessly repeated, because the evil were unimaginative, acting on feelings rather than reason. Forever agitated, they were unaware that the cause of their fury was the confining narrowness of the worldview they crafted for themselves, its emptiness. There would never be an end to them—and always a need for men and women willing to resist them at whatever cost. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

15 " Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

16 " The blend she preferred was fragrant and so rich in caffeine that the fumes alone would cure narcolepsy. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

17 " she ran for the only medicine that reliably cured any bout of unpleasant feelings: a book. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

18 " War,” Pax said, “either dulls the mind to despair or sharpens it toward intuitive truths. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

19 " With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)

20 " watching the sea as it carried to shore millions of fragments of the sun and cast them, cooled and foaming, on the sand. "

― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)