“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drink, he had better lay in a couple thousand tablets of viagra. The drug would probably remain potent if he vacuum packed the pills in groups of 10 and kept them in a freezer. That would work unless civilization completely collapsed and power companies were unable to function. Fortunately, Jim had a propane-powered backup generator with half a dozen tanks of fuel already on hand. If Henry added to the propane supply, and he used the generator only for essential maintenance like keeping the viagra freezer operating in warm weather, he would be happy here on the farm for a looong, looong time. Unless, even now, dead Jim was out there in the generator shed sabotaging the machinery.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine - well, sadly, then they were better off dead.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“All will be well, if we do what is right”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“Believing isn’t wishing, Grady. What you know with your heart is the only thing you really ever know.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small." - Grady Adams - "Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“If we aren't here for one another, why are we here?" - Grady Adams”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
“But by nature, the human heart yearns most for what it cannot have.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Breathless
Dean Koontz
Born place: in Everett, Pennsylvania, The United States
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“I don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns.
Sometimes it's like a scribble on a wall- no matter how many times you paint over it, a bit of it always comes through, but not enough to put together the whole.
I try not to think about it too much.”
― Amitav Ghosh, quote from The Glass Palace
“so far remained unbroken. Now my turn had come. In early springtime, when I was just sixteen, my mother took me to the house where she had won her shield so many years before. The Lady Abicel, long dead, had left her house and lands, along with her”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from The Warrior's Path
“Have a little faith in me, Volger."
"I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Goliath
“a hero is just somebody who does the right thing when it would be far, far easier to do nothing.”
-Cedric Diggory-”
― G. Norman Lippert, quote from James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
“Världen är väldig och förunderlig,..., men den är inte väldigare eller mer förunderlig än vårt medvetande. (s. 65)”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Other Wind
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