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Intensity QUOTES

Intensity QUOTES

1 " Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

2 " Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

3 " There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

4 " His base sins were envy - of beauty, of happiness - and pride, bending the whole world to his view of creation, and these were the greatest sins of all, the same transgressions over which the devil himself, once an archangel, had stumbled and fallen a long way out of Heaven. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

5 " Now he must deal with the security system, which has recorded everything that he's done. A video camera is mounted over the front door and focused on the cashiers' counter. Edgler Foreman Vess has no desire to see himself on television news. Living with intensity is virtually impossible when one is in prison. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

6 " She stared out at the gloaming and didn't care that it might be the last twilight she ever saw. She cared only that she had spent too much of her twenty-six years alone, with no one at her side to share the sunsets, the starry skies, the turbulent beauty of storm clouds. She wished that she had reached out to people more, instead of retreating inward, wished that she had not made her heart into a sheltering closet. Now, when nothing mattered any more, when the insight couldn't do her any damn good at all, she realized that there was less hope of survival alone than with others. She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well. Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance that she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

7 " Every life led to a series of quiet epiphanies - or at least to opportunities for epiphanies - and Chyna was washed by a poignant new grief when she thought about this grim aspect of the Templeton family's interrupted journeys. The kindnesses they might have done for others. The love they might have given. The things they might have come to understand in their hearts. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

8 " Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

9 " But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

10 " Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

11 " Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

12 " Even if God exists, does He know that you do? "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

13 " Sometimes, just trying was a triumph. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

14 " Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

15 " She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

16 " It is the purpose for which we exist. This reckless caring. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

17 " God does not shout; He whispers, and in that whisper is the way." Chyna Shepard in "Intensity "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

18 " Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them. This is also part of the philosophy of Edgler Foreman Vess. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

19 " she’d known that being a victim was often a choice people made. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity

20 " She wasn’t clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be. "

― Dean Koontz , Intensity