“...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
“For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
“What has been is no more. Change has come.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
“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?”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
“...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
“What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
“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.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
“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.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
“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.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Dead and Alive
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“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from A Northern Light
“i can't understand her"
well son, you might as well try to understand the sun”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Fires of Heaven
“What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity.”
― Frederick Douglass, quote from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“A pentagram is burning
in your eyes
and soft, pale twists of wolfbane
squeeze your heart.
A grinding pain
is writhing in your thighs
the crunch of bones
proclaims the changes start.”
― Annette Curtis Klause, quote from Blood and Chocolate
“I thought I was choosing the lesser evil. I chose the lesser evil. Lesser evil! I’m Geralt! Witcher…I’m the Butcher of Blaviken—”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, quote from The Last Wish
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