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“They can hopscotch around us," Chris told Laura. They can pop ahead in time to see where we show up, then they pick and choose the easiest place along the time stream to ambush us. It's sorta like… if we were the cowboys and the Indians were all psychic.”

Dean Koontz book Lightning

Part II, Chapter 5.4; 8-year-old Chris considering the time-travellers' strategy for catching them
Lightning (1988)

“Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd (2005), Chapter 21; musings of Odd Thomas

“A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.”

Dean Koontz book Lightning

Part II, Chapter 6.4; Laura's explanation to Chris
Lightning (1988)

“I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants […] Fear implies respect.”

Dean Koontz book One Door Away from Heaven

Leilani Klonk; chapter 1, p. 4
One Door Away from Heaven (2001)

“The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.”

Dean Koontz book Fear Nothing

Source: Fear Nothing (1998), Chapter 17; musings of Christopher Snow

“The cheerful tides of friends and neighbors, over the years, had washed away nearly all the stains that the dark rage Agne’s father had impressed on these rooms. She hoped her brothers might eventually see that hatred and anger are only scars upon a beach, while love is the rolling surf that ceaselessly smooths the sand.”

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Page 348; words of Agnes Lampion
From the Corner of His Eye (2000)

“How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. … Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.”

Dean Koontz book Lightning

Part II, Chapter 6.12; Laura's musings
Lightning (1988)

“Did you get the leash on him yet, Einstein?”

Dean Koontz book Watchers

Part 1, Chapter 7.6; Nora's query during Travis's futile struggle to leash human-smart dog Einstein
Watchers (1987)

“"But there are two things that different kinds of people believe that are the worst, most dangerous, wrongest of all. Some people believe that the best way to solve a problem is with violence; they beat up or kill anyone who disagrees with them."
… "But what's the other worst kind of bad thinking?"
"Pacifism," she said. "That's just the opposite of the first kind of bad thinking. Pacificists believe that you should never lift a hand against another human being, no matter what he has done or what you know he's going to do." … "Some pacificists are cowards in disguise, but some really believe it's right to permit the murder of an innocent person rather than kill to stop it. They're wrong because by not fighting evil, they've become part of it."”

Dean Koontz book Lightning

Part II, Chapter 5.1; conversation between Laura and her son Chris
Lightning (1988)

“When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject — if I have a serious interest in it.”

[16 June 2006, http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/koontz/meet_qa/june_15_2006.html, "Q&A" column, Dean Koontz: The Official Website, RandomHouse.com http://www.randomhouse.com, 2006-09-12]

“Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.”

Dean Koontz book Midnight

Harry Talbot; Part II, chapter 29, p. 287 [Koontz, Dean, w:Dean Koontz, Midnight, 1st edition, 1989, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, ISBN 0-399-13390-9, 383 pages]
Midnight (1989)

“"Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go."
"Which is where?"
"To a responsible future in a properly managed world."”

Dean Koontz book The Good Guy

Conversation between Wentworth and Timothy Carrier
Chapter 63, p. 368
The Good Guy (2007)

“He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing — but he did have a talent for baking… The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.”

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye (2000), Chapter 27; on Agnes' shut-in brother Jacob

“He's a hollow man. He believes in anything. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.”

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye (2000), Chapter 64; words of former policeman Thomas Vanadium

“Dr. Bob managed so successfully to turn the answer to every question into a mini-lecture on self-esteem and positive thinking, that Ethan wanted Hazard to arrest him on charges of Felony Cliché and Practicing Philosophy Without An Idea.”

Dean Koontz book The Face

Source: The Face (2003), Chapter 67; Ethan and Hazard's questioning of a pop-psychology university professor

“It's so damn hard to bloom… to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without… love.”

Dean Koontz book Watchers

Part 1, Chapter 7.5; Nora's comment on her changes since meeting Travis
Watchers (1987)

“She said, "Love isn't enough. Your parents have to know how to relate to you, and to each other. They have to want to be with you more than with anyone else. They have to love being home more than anywhere in the world, and they have to be more interested in you than in…"
"Snakes and tornadoes," I suggested.
"God, I love them. They're nice, Jimmy, they really are, and they mean well. But they live inside themselves more than not, and they keep their doors closed. You see them mostly through windows."”

Dean Koontz book Life Expectancy

Source: Life Expectancy (2004), Chapter 36; conversation between Lorrie Lynn Hicks and Jimmy Tock