Browse 147 quotes about Odd Thomas.
“Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light."
"Waste and void, waste and void. Darkness on the face of the deep," I said. "Then God commanded light. The light of the world descends from the Everlasting Light that is God."
"That is surely one thing it means," said Romanovich. "Bit it may also mean that the visible can be born from the invisible, That matter can arise from energy that thought is a form of energy and that thought itself can be concretized into the very object that is imagined.”
Source: Brother Odd
“Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it.”
Source: Brother Odd
“I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.”
Source: Saint Odd
“I feel like I've been sliding all day.”
Source: Brother Odd
“And because it was so wonderful, I slipped back down into that dream of dogs and children and beautiful people who met my eyes and knew me in full, knew me and did not reject me.”
Source: Deeply Odd
“...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...”
Source: Deeply Odd
“...I can't allow myself to be wary of one place merely because it reminds me of another place where I almost died, because just about every place reminds me of another place...”
Source: Odd Interlude
“Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.”
Source: Brother Odd
“Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute.”
Source: Brother Odd
“When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.”
Source: Brother Odd
“A part of me knew... from the moment I saw her;
her death would have been one wound too many that day.”
Source: Odd Hours
“In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to time that is death, the deaths of those we love, but the third and most constant darkness is with us everyday, at all hours of every day, is the darkness of the mind, the pettiness and meanness and hatred, which we have invited into ourselves, and which we pay out with generous interest.”
Source: Brother Odd
“Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.”
Source: Forever Odd
“I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.”
Source: Odd Apocalypse
“Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.”
Source: Brother Odd
“Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.”
Source: Brother Odd
“There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.”
Source: Odd Apocalypse
“Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.”
Source: Deeply Odd
“I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.”
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“Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.”
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“In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.”
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“I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.”
“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.”
“Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.”
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“Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.”
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“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.”
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“More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.”
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“The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas”
“From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.”
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“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”
“I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.”
Source: Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)
“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.”
“Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.”
Source: Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel
“I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!”
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“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”
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“I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.”
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“Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”
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“Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.”
“We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.”
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“Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.”
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“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.”
Source: Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)
“Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.”
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“Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas”
“Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4”
Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel
“Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8”
Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel
“The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53”
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“Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.”
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