Alexa > Alexa's Quotes

“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin to see that it wasn't just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours

“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”
― Dean Koontz

“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
― Dean Koontz

“Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.”
― Dean Koontz

“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. ”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”
― Dean Koontz

“Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. ”
― Dean Koontz

“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
― Dean Koontz, Intensity

“We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.”
― Dean Koontz

“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”
― Dean Koontz

“Alliteration seems to offend people.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.”
― Dean Koontz

“...at it's best fiction is medicine.”
― Dean Koontz

“I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.'
We don't have pigeons.'
Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.”
― Dean Koontz

“I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

“Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us."
If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.”
― Dean Koontz, The Taking

“In the real world
as in dreams
nothing is quite
what it seems.
-The Book of Counted Sorrows”
― Dean Koontz

“...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.”
― Dean Koontz, The Taking

“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.”
― Dean Koontz

“...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

“Reality isn't what it used to be.”
― Dean Koontz, The Taking