Quotes from book

Life Expectancy

“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

“Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.”

Dean Koontz book Life Expectancy

Source: Life Expectancy (2004), Chapter 39; Tock family saying

“… I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.”

Dean Koontz book Life Expectancy

Source: Life Expectancy

“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