“...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
“The girl turned to him and to his surprise, she smiled faintly. 'She's beautiful'.”
― Miyuki Miyabe, quote from Ico: Castle in the Mist
“Sometimes things get broken and people make mistakes. It's just what happens. And then, if you're lucky, they get fixed again, before it's too late.”
― Jennifer Gooch Hummer, quote from Girl Unmoored
“Se esfuerza en sonreírme, pero percibo que su rostro lleva el peso de las terribles impresiones que en él ha grabado la reflexión, constantemente inclinada sobre las esfinges que desconciertan, con sesgada mirada, las
grandes angustias de la inteligencia de los mortales.
Viendo la inutilidad de sus manejos, aparta los ojos, tasca su freno terrestre con la baba de la rabia, y mira el horizonte que huye cuando nos acercamos. A mi vez, me esfuerzo por recordarle su dorada juventud, que sólo pide entrar, como una reina, en los palacios de los placeres, pero advierte que mis palabras brotan con dificultad de mi demacrada boca y que los años de mi propia primavera pasaron, tristes y glaciales, como un sueño implacable que pasea, por las mesas de los banquetes y los lechos de raso, donde dormita la pálida sacerdotisa del amor, pagada con la reverberación del oro, las amargas voluptuosidades del desencanto, las pestilentes arrugas de la vejez, los terrores de la soledad y las antorchas del dolor. Viendo la inutilidad de mis manejos, no me
asombra no poder hacerle feliz; el Todopoderoso se
me aparece revestido con sus instrumentos de tortura,
en toda la resplandeciente aureola de su horror.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, quote from Maldoror = Les Chants de Maldoror, together with a translation of Lautréamont's Poésies
“He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.”
― Guru Nanak, quote from Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play cards with Catarina Loss.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
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