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“Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.”

Dean Koontz

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

Dean Koontz

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

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

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

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

Dean Koontz book Watchers

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.

“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.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

“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.”

Dean Koontz book Relentless

Source: Relentless

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

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“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.”

Dean Koontz

Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows

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

Dean Koontz book Life Expectancy

Source: Life Expectancy

“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.”

Dean Koontz book Your Heart Belongs to Me

Source: Your Heart Belongs to Me

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

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye

“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.”

Dean Koontz

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

Dean Koontz book Dead and Alive

Source: Dead and Alive

“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.”

Dean Koontz

Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows

“In this world only the paranoid survive.”

Dean Koontz book Midnight

Source: Midnight

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

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas