Dean Koontz Quotes

Source: One Door Away from Heaven (2001), chapter 73, pp. 604, 605
Context: What will you find behind the door that is one door away from Heaven? […] If your heart is closed, then you will find behind that door nothing to light your way. But if your heart is open, you will find behind that door people who, like you, are searching, and you will find the right door together with them. None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

Source: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

Part I, Chapter 1.2, the mysterious stranger's words to Bob Shane
Lightning (1988)

Source: Odd Thomas

Relentless

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year

Source: The Husband

Source: Odd Thomas

Geneva Davis; chapter 1, p. 8
Source: One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
Context: Change isn't easy, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

Source: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

Source: Innocence

Source: Your Heart Belongs to Me

Source: False Memory

Source: Lightning

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: Life Expectancy (2004), Chapter 39; Tock family saying

Source: Forever Odd (2005), Chapter 11; Odd Thomas's recounting of a conversation with Little Ozzie
Context: "Sometimes," I said, "it seems to me that a friend might not take such pleasure in making fun of me as you do."
"Dear Odd! If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness."

Source: Seize the Night

Source: Intensity

Source: Brother Odd

Source: Odd Thomas

Part 2, Chapter 9.2; Nora to an ill and unresponsive Einstein at the veterinary clinic
Watchers (1987)
Context: I thought of you as my guardian, Einstein… you taught me that I'm your guardian, too, that I'm Travis's guardian, and he is my guardian and yours. We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull.

Source: Forever Odd

Source: Relentless

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows

Source: Life Expectancy

Source: Your Heart Belongs to Me

Source: From the Corner of His Eye

Source: Dead and Alive

Source: Forever Odd

Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows

Source: Midnight

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: One Door Away from Heaven

Source: Forever Odd

Variant: .. the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.
Source: Odd Thomas

Source: Strange Highways

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: Dead and Alive

Source: Velocity

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Hours

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: Intensity

Source: Winter Moon

Source: Forever Odd

Source: Odd Thomas

Source: Life Expectancy

Source: Velocity