Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas (2003)

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I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

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Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.

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Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

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Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

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All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

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Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

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When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

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Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

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In the belly of Leviathan... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

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This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

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It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

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The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

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Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

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Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

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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.

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Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

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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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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

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If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

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The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.

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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

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In fact I am such a nonentity by the standards of our culture that People magazine not only will never feature a piece about me but might also reject my attempts to subscribe to their publication on the grounds that the black-hole gravity of my noncelebrity is powerful enough to suck their entire enterprise into oblivion.

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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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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

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The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

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Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

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She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

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