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Dean Koontz

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DEYTH BANGER A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being whe...
JAMES DASHNER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
STUART BRISCOE Dean Koontz is good in the silence makes silence... then he just attacks!
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DEYTH BANGER Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON Dean Koontz always find way out of the horror and when it's about silence he should be the first ima...
DEYTH BANGER It's a natural progression to where the opportunities exist.
FRED SCHMIDT You’re still in love with her. She makes you want to live life. Personally, and this is just me, m...
KARINA HALLE Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY Not everyone has the time to be normal.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW My industry tends to service more towards people that view them (pets) as part of the family. They t...
HOLLY HUNTIMER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, crue...
CéSAR CHáVEZ Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respe...
GAYLE LYNDS Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
THOMAS DISCH If I have anything to say about it, pets will be evacuated on the bus so the owners will know where ...
DOUG ANDERSON My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI What you Know and Believe in your heart, Has much more power to heal than any medication.....There i...
SHELLI THOMPSON Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the abili...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
DAVID SOUL In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
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HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
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LEWIS N. ROE The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
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VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
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JOHN M SHEEHAN I have never seen so many celebrities and their pets in one place, giving such support to the cause ...
LINDA BLAIR Heaven, or the Other Side is all around us. It is not in some far away place. Your loved ones are ju...
KAREN A. ANDERSON If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM People put dollar values - and therefore market values - on their pets all the time. ... sometimes i...
GERALD JESERICH This is the single biggest animal rescue ever. And the whole purpose is to give Louisiana residents ...
DAVE PAULI When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
BOB DYLAN Often, things happen in clusters that have no explanation except a chance occurrence. People like to...
DR. KEN GERSHMAN People's financial situation has changed, and they surrender their cats all the time, because th...
CELIA HAMMOND Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco...
AKIROQ BROST To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
QUI-GON TO ANAKIN Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYA AANGELOU You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.
ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries ...
DEAN KOONTZ We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, place...
DAVID QUAMMEN Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
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DEAN KOONTZ You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
DEAN KOONTZ From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
DEAN KOONTZ That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
DEAN KOONTZ She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...
DEAN KOONTZ For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
DEAN KOONTZ One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
DEAN KOONTZ That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
DEAN KOONTZ Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
DEAN KOONTZ The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
DEAN KOONTZ Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
DEAN KOONTZ it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
DEAN KOONTZ Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
DEAN KOONTZ Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
DEAN KOONTZ There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
DEAN KOONTZ He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
DEAN KOONTZ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
DEAN KOONTZ He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
DEAN KOONTZ His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat...
DEAN KOONTZ The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
DEAN KOONTZ But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
DEAN KOONTZ You amaze me and scare me. I can’t figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, b...
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