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
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread,… — 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
“When we love someone, we’re held hostage by fate, because if we lose that person, then we, too, are lost.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“we’re finally getting a little wisdom when we’re able to see that even loss can be beautiful if it makes us love… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love…. —Emily Dickinson” — 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
“Love was everyone's to experience if they opened their hearts, but true love was a rare and sterling thing, damn if it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The only thing that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source… — 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
“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
“Falling in love could be like falling off a cliff, no water below but plenty of rocks.” — 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
“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
“Why I love him is, I don't know, because he seems very brave and kind and sweet. All that stuff but something… — 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
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
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
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
“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
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making… — 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
“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
