Dean Koontz: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”

“Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.”

“We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.”

“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”

“I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.”

“Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.”

“We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.”

“On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.”

“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”

“If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”

“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”

“Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.”

“In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.”

“… in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”

“Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”

“Now take my hand and hold it tight.
I will not fail you here tonight,
For failing you, I fail myself
And place my soul upon a shelf
In Hell's library without light.
I will not fail you here tonight.”

“In this world only the paranoid survive.”

“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.”