Quotes by Dean Koontz

“I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.”

“If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.”

“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 mir...”

“To spare Cloyce's victims further indignities to their memory, I must be a scourge. To prevent others from perhaps being infected by Cloyce's depravity by watching him at work, I must be a scourge....”

“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.”

“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”

“Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.”

“Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.”

“He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.”

“That was the splendid thing about life: Though it was cruel, it was also mysterious, filled with wonder and surprise; sometimes the surprises were so amazing that they qualified as miraculous, and ...”

“Over the past five years, I’ve said my best prayers every night, haven’t missed a night, though I gotta admit, if it wouldn’t break my mother’s heart, I’d probably have stopped a year ago. I mean, ...”

“Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.”

“She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an in...”

“I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.”

“Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only facti...”

“People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning in their lives, and to have someone to hate.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.”