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21 " that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature. She "
― Dean Koontz , The Taking
22 " If some hopped-up loser, desperate for drug money or violent sex, broke into your house, you could be killed five times over in thirty-two minutes. Consequently, most of these people were prepared to defend themselves—and with enthusiasm. "
23 " every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature. "
24 " without a clear purpose, without a long-term plan, she felt adrift. "
25 " gibbous "
26 " In a troubled culture where cream often settled on the bottom and the palest milk rose to the top, "
27 " By rejecting the fundamentals of the very civilization that made possible its rise, modernism and its philosophical stepchildren offered flash in place of genuine beauty, sensation in place of hope. "
28 " hope; like calcium, hope was part of the structure of her bones. "
29 " The cumulative effect was a whisper of such insidious subtlety that it almost seemed to arise within her head, less like a real sound than like an auditory hallucination. "