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Dean Ray Koontz is an American author. His novels are broadly described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Bestseller List, with 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks reaching the number-one position. Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Leigh Nichols", and "Brian Coffey". He has sold over 450 million copies as reported on his official website.

✵ 9. July 1945  •  Other names دین کونتز
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Dean Koontz Quotes

“Reality isn't what it used to be.”

Dean Koontz book The Taking

Source: The Taking

“Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us."
If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.”

Dean Koontz book The Taking

Source: The Taking

“The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

“In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.”

Dean Koontz

“Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.”

Dean Koontz

“Whiskers of the cat,
Webbed toes on my swimming dog;
God is in the details.”

Dean Koontz

Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows

“In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.”

Dean Koontz book Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls”

Dean Koontz book The Darkest Evening of the Year

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year

“She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.”

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye

“His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.”

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye

“… at it's best fiction is medicine.”

Dean Koontz

“Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.”

Dean Koontz book Relentless

Source: Relentless

“I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

“But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.”

Dean Koontz book Intensity

Source: Intensity

“Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.”

Dean Koontz

“It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.”

Dean Koontz book Lightning

Source: Lightning

“I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.”

Dean Koontz book Relentless

Source: Relentless

“Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.”

Dean Koontz book Odd Hours

Source: Odd Hours

“The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.”

Dean Koontz book One Door Away from Heaven

Source: One Door Away from Heaven

“Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.”

Dean Koontz

Source: Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

“What sucks the worst is… this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

“here in the summer desert, winter found my blood”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”

Dean Koontz book The Good Guy

Source: The Good Guy

“Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.”

Dean Koontz book Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.”

Dean Koontz book False Memory

Source: False Memory

“Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”

Dean Koontz book Breathless

Source: Breathless

“What has been is no more. Change has come.”

Dean Koontz book Dead and Alive

Source: Dead and Alive

“Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.”

Dean Koontz book Your Heart Belongs to Me

Source: Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.”

Dean Koontz

Source: Innocence

“Your past is my Future.”

Dean Koontz book Lightning

Lightning

“Live you can evade; death you cannot.”

Dean Koontz book Brother Odd

Brother Odd

“Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.”

Dean Koontz book Odd Apocalypse

Odd Apocalypse

“Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas (2003), Chapter 34; observation of Odd Thomas

“Evidently, Ted had walked down the block from his own house and entered with the intention of fixing something. Now Ted was broken, too, and beyond repair.”

Dean Koontz book Watchers

Part 1, Chapter 7.7; about the death of Travis's landlord, Ted Hockney
Watchers (1987)

“Dylan… said, "Both Becky and Kenny need medical attention—"
"And a prison cell until their social security kicks in," Jilly added.
"—but give us two or three minutes before you call 9-1-1," Dylan finished.
This instruction baffled Marj. "But you are 9-1-1."
Jilly fielded that peculiar question: "We're one of the ones, Marj, but we're not the other one or the nine."”

Dean Koontz book By the Light of the Moon

after Dylan & Jilly (who had claimed to be an undercover policewoman) save Marj and her grandson from homicidal teenagers
By the Light of the Moon (2002)