Brother John Quotes

“You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“...With a pneumatic hiss, the door slid open.

Brother John says the hiss is not an inevitable consequence of the operation of the door. It could have been made to open silently.

He incorporated the hiss to remind himself that in every human enterprise, no matter with what virtuous intentions it is undertaken, a serpent lurks.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“More likely, they would just cease to exist."

"That's death."

"No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd