“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. ”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.'
We don't have pigeons.'
Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“...if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“A flipped fork flicked my forehead.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“We must have our goals, our dreams, and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“I remembered reading that the sweat and breath of certifiable psychopaths have a subtle but distinctive chemical odor because of certain physiological conditions accompanying that mental disorder. Maybe her breath smelled of craziness.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“Grief is a healthy emotion, and it’s healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
“As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Forever Odd
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“Well, it is a crypt. In the philosophical sense. All old buildings become crypts the moment they're finished. A shrine to a time that's already dead.”
― Krystal Sutherland, quote from Our Chemical Hearts
“Impressive pipe,” I tell him. “Should I call you Sherlock?”
He grins. “Only if I can call you Princess.”
My head toddles as I think it over. “I’m secure enough in my manhood to stand that.”
“Excellent.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Royally Matched
“In every way there is, murder is chaos. Our job is simple, when you get down to it: we stand against that, for order. I remember this country back when I was growing up. We went to church, we ate family suppers around the table, and it would never even have crossed a kid’s mind to tell an adult to fuck off. There was plenty of bad there, I don’t forget that, but we all knew exactly where we stood and we didn’t break the rules lightly. If that sounds like small stuff to you, if it sounds boring or old-fashioned or uncool, think about this: people smiled at strangers, people said hello to neighbors, people left their doors unlocked and helped old women with their shopping bags, and the murder rate was scraping zero. Sometime since then, we started turning feral. Wild got into the air like a virus, and it’s spreading. Watch the packs of kids roaming inner-city estates, mindless and brakeless as baboons, looking for something or someone to wreck. Watch the businessmen shoving past pregnant women for a seat on the train, using their 4x4s to force smaller cars out of their way, purple-faced and outraged when the world dares to contradict them. Watch the teenagers throw screaming stamping tantrums when, for once, they can’t have it the second they want it. Everything that stops us being animals is eroding, washing away like sand, going and gone. The final step into feral is murder.”
― Tana French, quote from Broken Harbor
“It`s remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it`s expected of them, or they think it`s expected of them.”
― K.J. Parker, quote from Devices and Desires
“Whenever elephants met men, elephants fared badly. Syria's final elephants were exterminated by twenty-five hundred years ago. Elephants were gone from much of China literally before the year 1 and much of Africa by the year 1000. Meanwhile, in India and southern Asia, elephants became the mounts of kings; tanks against forts, prisoners' executioners, and pincushions of arrows, driven mad in battle; elephants became logging trucks and bulldozers, and, as with other slaves, their forced labor requires beatings and abuse. Since Roman times, humans have reduced Africa's elephant population by perhaps 99 percent. African elephants are gone from 90 percent of the lands they roamed as recently as 1800, when, despite earlier losses, an estimated twenty-six million elephants still trod the continent. Now they number perhaps four hundred thousand. (The diminishment of Asian elephants over historic times is far worse.) The planet's menagerie has become like shards of broken glass; we're grinding the shards smaller and smaller.”
― Carl Safina, quote from Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
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