Odd Thomas Quotes

But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards stalking the storm, with Death opening the door to a luge chute and inviting me to go for a bobsled ride, I didn't have time to put on a victim suit and tell the woeful tale of my sorrowful childhood. Neither time nor the inclination

~ Dean Koontz

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

~ Dean Koontz

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

~ Dean Koontz

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

~ Dean Koontz

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

~ Dean Koontz

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

~ Dean Koontz

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.

~ Dean Koontz

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

~ Dean Koontz

Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are.

~ Dean Koontz

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you.I said, She never has.

~ Dean Koontz

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

~ Dean Koontz

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

~ Dean Koontz

There will be something very wrong with any place we go.

~ Dean Koontz

It's only life. We all get through it.Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.

~ Dean Koontz

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

~ Dean Koontz

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

~ Dean Koontz

A part of me knew... from the moment I saw her,her death would have been one wound too many that day.

~ Dean Koontz

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

~ Dean Koontz

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning.

~ Dean Koontz

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.

~ Dean Koontz

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

~ Dean Koontz

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

~ Dean Koontz

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

~ Dean Koontz

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

~ Dean Koontz

More likely, they would just cease to exist.That's death.No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

~ Dean Koontz

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

~ Dean Koontz

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

~ Dean Koontz

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

~ Dean Koontz

When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.

~ Dean Koontz

Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. 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.

~ Dean Koontz

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

~ Dean Koontz

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

~ Dean Koontz

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

~ Dean Koontz

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

~ Dean Koontz

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

~ Dean Koontz

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

~ Dean Koontz

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

~ Dean Koontz

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished. What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?

~ Dean Koontz

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

~ Dean Koontz

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.

~ Dean Koontz