“Once you’ve loved someone, the love is always there, even after they’re gone.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“War was waged to make peace. Abuse was love. Welcome to the funhouse, where strange mirrors reflect the faces of hell.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. —Thomas… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor" "A ship without an anchor can… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Iris does not believe the world loves her. She wants to believe it, but she doesn't, she can't. She doesn't know why… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I realized that loving people, depending on them, NEEDING them, is just too dangerous. Love is just a way to set you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...Child, do you know where trult great courage comes from, the kind of courage that will never back down?' I said, "Faith."… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument to dust. The only thing that survives… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“There were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“THAT WE SHOULD MEET IN THE WHIRL OF LIFE THAT spins more people apart than together, that we should find in each… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If a girl wasn't loved a little bit, without the depth of affection that might at least be mistaken for love, she… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Love scrubs the worst stains clean. Anyway, there can be no retreat in the face of evil, only resistance. And commitment.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“My rich Diana. Fly me to the moon with you. Dance among the stars. Treacle. Romantic hogwash. Derivative. Unworthy. My rich Diana.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cathedral as grand as any… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“he expressed his love more often with pats on the head and affectionate smiles than with kisses and extravagant proclamations of devotion.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Too many of us die without knowing transcendent joy, in part because we pursue one form or another of materialism. We seek… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
