“Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch.
"Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Tick Tock
“The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Tick Tock
“Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Tick Tock
“Don't be negative. Negative thinking disturbs the fabric of the cosmos.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Tick Tock
“Everything is more than it seems, but nothing is as mysterious as it appears to be.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Tick Tock
“Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Tick Tock
“The doll twitched. Its head turned slightly toward Tommy. Its green eye fixed on him.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Tick Tock
“Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just that... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Tick Tock
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“يقولون الآن إنني ضللت الطريق, وما دُمت فعلتُ فإلي أين سأصل؟ وهذه حقيقةٌ لا غبار عليها: لقد ضللتٌ وقد تسوءٌ الأمور أكثر في المستقبل. ولاشكَ أنني سأضيعٌ أكثر من مَرّة قبل أن أهتدي إلي سواء السبيل.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
“That is how you know you've left childhood behind - when you wish for time to go backward.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Here on Earth
“Why do we care about Lizzie Borden, or Judge Crater, or Lee Harvey Oswald, or the Little Big Horn?
Mystery!
Because of all that cannot be known. And what if we did know? What if it were proved—absolutely and purely—that Lizzie Borden took an ax? That Oswald acted alone? That Judge Crater fell into Sicilian hands? Nothing more would beckon, nothing would tantalize.
The thing about Custer is this: no survivors. Hence, eternal doubt, which both frustrates and fascinates. It’s a standoff.
The human desire for certainty collides with our love of enigma. And so I lose sleep over mute facts and frayed ends and missing witnesses.
God knows I’ve tried.
Reams of data, miles of magnetic tape, but none of it satisfies even my own primitive appetite for answers. So I toss and turn. I eat pints of ice cream at two in the morning.
Would it help to announce the problem early on? To plead for understanding? To argue that solutions only demean the grandeur of human ignorance? To point out that absolute knowledge is absolute closure? To issue a reminder that death itself dissolves into uncertainty, and that out of such uncertainty arise great temples and tales of salvation?
I prowl and smoke cigarettes.
I review my notes.
The truth is at once simple and baffling: John Wade was a pro. He did his magic, then walked away. Everything else is conjecture. No answers, yet mystery itself carries me on.”
― Tim O'Brien, quote from In the Lake of the Woods
“How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.”
― Lori Lansens, quote from The Girls
“If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy,”
― Jeff VanderMeer, quote from City of Saints and Madmen
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