Quotes from Dead and Alive

Dean Koontz ·  400 pages

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“...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



About the author

Dean Koontz
Born place: in Everett, Pennsylvania, The United States
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