Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd Quotes
To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.
Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.
You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.
Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more.
He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.
It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting.""Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card
Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool
Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.
The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.
If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.
But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern
Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...
Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.
In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.
