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Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness.

We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery.


Dean Koontz

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DEAN KOONTZ In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen mom...
DEAN KOONTZ I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and p...
DEAN KOONTZ Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I sai...
DEAN KOONTZ Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they go...
DEAN KOONTZ The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.
DEAN KOONTZ Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...
DEAN KOONTZ They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the...
DEAN KOONTZ Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.
DEAN KOONTZ I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

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DEAN KOONTZ Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drin...
DEAN KOONTZ It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear...
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...
DEAN KOONTZ