“No one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Who is more foolish—the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? —MAURICE FREEHILL” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Soon, both of the Dawson children would be slaughtered, reduced to nothing more than bloody mounds of dead meat.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“faithless priests molesting children, politicians riding to reelection by the agitation of class envy: All these and numerous” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small." - Grady Adams -… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Children were the world as it was meant to be - and they were a light within the world. But for every… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Her husband, Rafael, who'd left her and who'd contributed not one penny to his children's welfare, was a fool of such dimensions… — 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
“the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
