“We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.”
Quote by Dean Koontz
“All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd
“There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.”
“Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.”
Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel
“Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd
“You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.”
Source: Fear Nothing: A Novel
“Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.”
Source: Velocity: A Novel
“Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.”
“Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.”
Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel
“Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.”
Source: Velocity: A Novel
“We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd