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The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2) QUOTES

The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2) QUOTES

1 " Laws the seemed to be about making the Internet more fair, making it more democratic and open...Woven through them are levers with which government agencies can control what's seen. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

2 " Taking refuge in the hopeless nature of anything was just a form of cowardice. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

3 " Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

4 " freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

5 " I guess I need to get my paranoid on. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

6 " Once truth was known, it could not be unlearned, nor could it be forgotten, but lay always in the heart, a darkness for which all the years ahead would be spent seeking whatever light could be found to compensate. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

7 " Over the centuries, the Miriams and the Bernies and the millions like them were the fonts of free and civil societies, which was why the likes of D. J. Michael so despised them and yearned to oppress them; freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

8 " Haven’t you noticed, insanity is the new normal? "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

9 " You could know the science of a thing and still find the phenomenon mysterious and mystical, and feel small and vulnerable in the face of it. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

10 " The trouble with the what-if game was that once you began to play it, you couldn’t just quit whenever you wanted. From one what-if grew another. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

11 " Dogs in general, not just good Dixie, sometimes regarded their humans with an expression of loving concern colored with tender pity, as if they knew not merely people’s most private fears and hopes, but also the very truth of life and the fate of all things, as though they wished that they could speak in order to give comfort by sharing what they knew. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

12 " Intuition was the highest form of knowledge, antecedent to all teaching, not reliant on reasoning. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

13 " Sometimes life seemed to be a machine designed to crush dreams as effectively as a junkyard hydraulic press crumpled cars into compact cubes. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

14 " By all those tells, he wrote his anxiety and his guilt as clearly as if he had composed his confession on a blackboard with a stick of chalk. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

15 " Instead, he functioned well on four or five hours, with an occasional six. Sleep was rest to him, yes, but it also felt like a taste of death, waking to discover that, for hours, the world had gone on just fine without him, as one day it would go on forever. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

16 " ...from an age of hope, when honor and a sense that right would always win suffused the land. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

17 " the recognition of Evil, not as it was portrayed by Disney villains, but as it was in fact: ruthless and irrational, selfish above all else, convinced of its righteousness and of the beauty of disorder. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

18 " They said that man proposes, God disposes; "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

19 " The world was a maze of mysteries and puzzles, but it was a world of rational design that did not present puzzles without answers. There was always an answer. "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)

20 " disquietude "

― Dean Koontz , The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2)