“I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Strangers
“In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Strangers
“For a better part of a decade, he had been outside society, distanced in mind and spirit if not in body. But now, for the first time since Centeral America, Jack Twist had the need, the desire, and ability to reach out to society around him, to make friends.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Strangers
“You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Strangers
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Born place: in Everett, Pennsylvania, The United States
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“There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Truckers
“That Tolkien also included in Roverandom words such as paraphernalia, and phosphorescent, primordial, and rigmarole, is refreshing in these later days when such language is considered too ‘difficult’ for young children – a view with which Tolkien would have disagreed. ‘A good vocabulary,’ he once wrote (April 1959), ‘is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one’s age-group. It comes from reading books above one’ (Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien [1981], pp. 298–9).”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Roverandom
“Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113”
― Anthony Doerr, quote from Memory Wall
“Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pathfinder
“There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
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