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41 " What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't. "
― Dean Koontz , Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)
42 " After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled. "
43 " If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness. "
44 " The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. "
45 " Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease. "
46 " ...if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. "
47 " We must have our goals, our dreams, and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn. "
48 " Grief is a healthy emotion, and it’s healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives. "
49 " A flipped fork flicked my forehead. "
50 " I remembered reading that the sweat and breath of certifiable psychopaths have a subtle but distinctive chemical odor because of certain physiological conditions accompanying that mental disorder. Maybe her breath smelled of craziness. "
51 " Daily I walk a high wire, always in danger of losing my balance. The essence of my life is supernatural, which I must respect if I am to make the best use of my gift. Yet I live in the rational world and am subject to its laws. The temptation is to be guided entirely by impulses of an otherworldly origin-but in this world a long fall will always end in a hard impact. "
52 " I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I do now; but perhaps children will be amused by my hippopotamic heroics, and no one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable. "
53 " No one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable. "
54 " Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be togetherforever. "
55 " Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas) "
56 " When she returned, she smiled and said, "We were at the movies once, and this dork took two phone calls during the film. Later we followed him, and Andre broke both his legs with a baseball bat."This proved that even the most evil people could occasionally have a socially responsible impulse. "
57 " It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing...Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia. "
58 " Don't get me wrong. I'm sure you've got a fabulously dark, twisted, and perhaps even deeply sick imagination. I'm not trying to devalue the dementedness of your imagination and do not mean to diminish your pride in it. "
59 " Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. "
60 " if one’s friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. "