It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Grief can destroy you—or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light. The only thing that kept the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“For a long time, she wept, not so much for him and not at all for herself, but for the condition of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I was finally convinced of something I had suspected for a long time: God has a sense of humor, and because the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He, too, had been glassed-in for a long time, by choice. Now and then he had lifted a hammer to shatter through… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to… — 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
