“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“Insanity is not evil, but all evil is insane. Evil itself is never funny, but insanity sometimes can be. We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil’s power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“As they have taught me, I believe that without asking, we are given all we need. We must have the wit and wisdom to recognize the strengths and tools at our command, and find the courage to do what must be done.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“Humor is a petal on the flower of hope, and hope blossoms on the vine of faith. They have faith in each other and faith that life has meaning, and from this faith comes their indefatigable good humor, which is their greatest gift to each other—and to me.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery,”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“the more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“ravaged kidney; but, God willing, she would be able to enjoy a full life with the one that remained.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you’re playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“When you realize you’re fighting a fundamental law of the universe, it’s best to surrender to nature.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“No one’s life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“My wife, who is the linchpin of my life, claims that I have a presence much bigger than my physique. She says that people measure me by the impression I make on them.
I find this notion ludicrous. It is bullshit born of love.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“power past the Hummer and regain the roadway, we were forced counterclockwise. When”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“something of you, but please believe me, I didn’t come to warn you that Beezo is on your doorstep. He”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“... She is awesomely competent without being smug. She is determined without being bossy, morally certain without being judgmental. She likes herself but is not full of herself.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
“My parents didn't raise me to ask God for blessings or benefits. For guidance, yes. For the strength to do the right thing, yes. Not for a winning lottery number, not for love or health, or happiness. Prayer is not a gimme list; God isn't Santa Claus.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Life Expectancy
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“why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.
Why try to make me like you?
Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle?
Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle?
Why do you scream when I do what I did?
Im a kid.”
― Shel Silverstein, quote from Falling Up
“I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from The Surgeon
“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely, divorced, widowed; children growing away from you, friends dying. You imagine the loss of status, the loss of desire – and desirability. You may go further and consider your own approaching death, which, despite what company you may muster, can only be faced alone. But all this is looking ahead. What you fail to do is look ahead, and then imagine yourself looking back from the future point. Learning the new emotions that time brings. Discovering, for example, that as the witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. Even if you have assiduously kept records – in words, sound, pictures – you may find that you have attended to the wrong kind of record-keeping. What was the line Adrian used to quote? 'History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
― Julian Barnes, quote from The Sense of an Ending
“She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.”
― Jean M. Auel, quote from The Mammoth Hunters
“What should we call him?" Klaus asked.
"You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference."
"His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling.
"Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Reptile Room
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