"The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but……" — Dean Koontz

"The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop."

— Dean Koontz

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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz has 374 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's…
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a…
The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our…
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise…
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity,…
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

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I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was,… — Darren Aronofsky
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am… — Arthur Ashe
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and… — Margaret Atwood
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy… — Saint Augustine
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,… — Paul Auster
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased… — Francis Bacon
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put… — Russell Baker
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. — Lynda Barry
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally… — Drew Barrymore
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.… — L. Frank Baum

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