Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas (2003)

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

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

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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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The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."—Odd Thomas

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No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

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Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

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The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

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If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

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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.

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That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

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The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

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All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

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Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

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Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

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What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

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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

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I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.

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Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

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We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

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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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We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

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I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

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Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

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The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

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I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

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