Dean Koontz

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#human #see #experience

If a girl wasn't loved a little bit, without the depth of affection that might at least be mistaken for love, she was being used, and no one was the better for being used ↗

— Dean Koontz

#used #love

On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life #life

The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#age

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#memory #odd-apocalypse #odd-thomas #photographs #life

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#virtue #imagination

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life #problems #humor

Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out his ears. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#jocko #salty #sweet #funny

This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#faith #gut-feeling #illogical #intuition #faith