“ She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world. Dean Koontz
“ Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings... Dean Koontz
“ Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us. Dean Koontz
“ When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential. Dean Koontz
“ You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do. Dean Koontz
“ Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read. Dean Koontz
“ Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more. Dean Koontz
“ Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings. Dean Koontz
“ It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting.""Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card Dean Koontz
“ Don't you love your mother, dear?""I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. Dean Koontz
“ If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from… Dean Koontz
“ From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a miracl… Dean Koontz
“ Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded. Dean Koontz
“ Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool Dean Koontz
