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1 " What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life. "
― Dean Koontz , Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #3)
2 " For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path. "
3 " Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered? "
4 " What has been is no more. Change has come. "
5 " Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring. "
6 " ...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner. "
7 " ...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist. "
8 " I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive. "
9 " Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out his ears. "
10 " Anyway,” he said, “if somebody doesn’t belong in the world, there’s no door they can throw him out. They can’t take the world away from him and put him somewhere different. The worst thing they can do is kill him. That’s all. "
11 " Everywhere you look, if you look close enough, a tale of wonder is unfolding, for every life is a narrative and everyone a character in his or her own drama. "
12 " This world is a world of stories, of mystery and enchantment. Everywhere you look, if you look close enough, a tale of wonder is unfolding, for every life is a narrative and everyone a character in his or her own drama. "