Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 12

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• The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.

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  Angel, Garden, Hands

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.89, Bantam

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• When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

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  Wrong Things

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.18, Bantam

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• here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

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  Summer, Winter, Blood

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.19, Bantam

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• Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

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  Wish, Pups, Might

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• We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

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  Scared, Born

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• If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.

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  Beach, Memories, Broken

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

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  White, Rabbits, Wonderland

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.

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  Tubs

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• If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

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  Laughing, Facts, Odd Thomas

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.375, Bantam

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• Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?

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  Orange, What If, Pork

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.382, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Worry, Teeth, Way

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.335, Bantam

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• I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

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  Doe, Certainty

  Twitter post from May 08, 2015

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• The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

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  Wife, Secret, World

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• 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.

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  White, Black, Sound

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• ... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.

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  Book, Ferrets, Ears

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.772, Bantam

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• From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

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  Self, Mad, Doubt

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.81, Bantam

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• Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

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  Dream, Real, Ambition

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

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• I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

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  Baby, World, Wonder

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• That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

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  Interesting, Riding, Want

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.334, Bantam

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• That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

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  Memories, Goes On, Way

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.472, Bantam

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• its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

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  Knows, Rare Things, Core

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• I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

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  Lost, Dump, Humour

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.6, Bantam

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• ...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

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  Keys, Giving, Mind

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.72, Bantam

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• I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

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  People, Odd Thomas, Dead People

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.34, Bantam

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• It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

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  Needs, Remember

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.124, Penguin

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