Clifford Rabon

“When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief and never really directed solely at the imbalance that supposedly inspired it. The rule of law becomes the rule of violence. Revenge becomes a synonym for justice. No city is safe from such horror, no nation, no time in all of history. Be ready to recognize the moment. Be always ready.”
― Dean Koontz, Innocence

“Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude

“There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free will even though the consequences of our will are predictable.”
― Dean Koontz, Innocence