Best Odd Thomas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose”

Heart Stars Logic Constellations Odd Thomas Essential Unreason Cassiopeia

Book:Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

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

Life Pleasure Decisions Free Will Anguish Odd Thomas Necessity Options Eddie Fischer

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“...up to no good—and pleased about it.”

Pleasure Mischief Odd Thomas Pleased No Good

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“In time she said, "I love you, Oddie." My voice was thick when I replied. "I love you more than life.” "We'll be okay," she said. "We are okay." "We're weird and screwed-up, but we're okay," she agreed. "If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would melt under my tongue. But you-you're cool.”

Weird Weirdness Odd Thomas Stormy Llewellyn

Book:Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.”

Evil Imagination Virtue Repetition Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.”

Life Learning Dying Experience Doing Odd Thomas Going

Book:Odd Hours

Source: Odd Hours

“Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...”

Evil Desires Anonymity Odd Thomas Travels Masquarades

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.”

Life Evil Good Connection Tapestry Odd Thomas Weaving Intrecate

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, make sit impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.”

Evil Events Connections Good Strings Odd Thomas Tapestry Of Life Everything Is Connected

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Small-town boy meets big-time evil.”

Evil Small Town Odd Thomas Boy

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.”

Evil Weakness Guilt Resistance Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“Evil never dies. It just changes faces.”

Faces Death Evil Odd Thomas

Book:Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

“I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.”

Lies Odd Thomas Slippery Slope Obliviousness Fibs

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.”

Love Respect Odd Thomas Stormy Llewellyn

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...”

World Names Beauty Respect Odd Thomas Names Of Things

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“When my wits fail me, I resort to self-deception.”

Self Deception Odd Thomas Wits

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.”

Life Optimism Odd Thomas

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.”

Silence Conversation Preference Odd Thomas

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.”

Mother Voice Memories Silence Practice Childhood Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“These days, 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. This is a big request to make of busy Fate, who has billions of lives to keep in constant turmoil.”

Fate Entertaining Amusing Odd Thomas

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”

Fate Free Will Odd Thomas Roads Viola Peabody

Book:Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.”

Time Destiny Fate Odd Thomas Schedule Chief Wyatt Porter

Book:Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

“In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.”

Fate Name Odd Thomas

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

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

Personality Charm Charisma Smiles Odd Thomas Butter Toast Melt Kipp

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.”

Hope Future Smiles Odd Thomas Wandering

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“I’m not the law. I’m not vigilante justice. I’m not vengeance personified. I don’t really know what I am, or why. In moments like these, however, I can’t restrain myself from action. A kind of madness comes over me, and I can no more turn away from what must be done than I can wish this fallen world back into a state of grace.”

Action Justice Duty Madness Odd Thomas Dean Koontz Righteous Anger

Book:Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“What we fear too much we often bring to pass.”

Fear Worry Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“...and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.”

Life Care Lows Human Experience Odd Thomas Carnival Rides Highs Ferris Wheel

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.”

Care Grace Emotions Odd Thomas Jolie Ann Harmony

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.”

Success Waiting Future Patience Impatience Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Interlude #1

Source: Odd Interlude #1

“Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.”

Love Faith Hope Waiting Future Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Interlude #1

Source: Odd Interlude #1

“Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.”

Waiting Future Impatience Odd Thomas Crafting Shaping

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.”

Compassion Empathy Solutions Odd Thomas Hugs Fixes

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.”

Poetry Books Poets Odd Thomas Thoughtsughts

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.”

Life Death Knowledge Ignorance Birth Circles Odd Thomas Pattern

Book:Saint Odd

Source: Saint Odd

“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.”

Happiness Purpose Fear Birth Laughter Odd Thomas Jacob Calvino

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.”

Pain Childhood Food Books Heartbreak Parents Odd Thomas Insulation

Book:Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

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

Life Fear Acceptance Odd Thomas Brother John

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“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 me.”

Life Tears Abuse Dry Struggles Odd Thomas Stone Jolie Ann Harmony

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, we are beyond mercy.”

Love Death Suffering Compassion Mercy Pity Sympathy Odd Thomas Die A Little Every Day

Book:Odd Apocalypse

Source: Odd Apocalypse

“Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...”

Life Faith Courage Doubt Blood Charity Greed Cowardice Scent Might Have Been Fragrance Could Have Been Odd Thomas What We Are

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.”

Life Answers Learning Journey Experiences Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.”

Life Universe Events Gratitude Clarity Odd Thomas Eddie Fischer Clarifying Moment Layered Depths

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.”

Happiness Universe Odd Thomas Full Circle

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.”

World Life Universe Mystery Ignorance Meaning Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Interlude #1

Source: Odd Interlude #1

“The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.”

Death Challenges Humility Arrogance Humbleness Odd Thomas Assurances

Book:Deeply Odd

Source: Deeply Odd

“Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.”

Humility Self Love Odd Thomas Narcissists

Author:Dean Koontz

“Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning.”

Life Effort Beauty Humility Faults Triumph Failures Odd Thomas Striving Disheartened Perceverance

Book:Odd Interlude

Source: Odd Interlude

“That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.”

Life Change Dreams Humility Goals Storms Odd Thomas

Book:Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

“So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought.”

Matter Energy Existence Thought Odd Thomas Rodion Romanovich

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd