Dean Koontz, Brother Odd Quotes

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

So, " said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.

In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.