Dean Koontz citations

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“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.”

“When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”

“Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.”

“The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.”

“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.”

“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”

“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”

“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”

“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”

“Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul”

“In the real world
as in dreams
nothing is quite
what it seems.
-The Book of Counted Sorrows”

“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”

“Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.”

“People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.”

“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”

“Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.”

“I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.”

“Alliteration seems to offend people.”

“I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.”

“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.”

“Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.”