Annamaria Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there's a safe harbor past the terror. — Dean Koontz

How have you kept yourself as yourself all these years? 'Books,' the boy said. 'Thousands of books.' 'They must have been the right books.' 'Some were, some weren't. You figure out which are which.' 'How do you figure it out?' 'At first by how you feel.' 'And later?' 'By reading what's there on the page and also what's not.' 'Between the lines,' she said. 'Under the lines,' he said. -Annamaria and Timothy -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 328 chapter 49 — Dean Koontz

Every place is the same place in the end. — Dean Koontz

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five. — Michala Petri

Only a sense of lightness, giddy and dizzying, like flight - of a burden that didn't belong to me being lifted.
Suddenly I knew the truth and the lights surrounding me exploded.
I am free. — Andrea Cremer

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass. — Dean Koontz

I love clothes! I'll wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel. — J. R. Celski

When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not ... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too. — Julianne Moore

Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love. — Dean Koontz

All death matters."
"Only to the living. — Dean Koontz

There will be something very wrong with any place we go. — Dean Koontz

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved ... — Dean Koontz

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself. — Eartha Kitt

We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion. — Dean Koontz

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown. — Dean Koontz

Tell me the truth. When you were a kid, did you always color inside the lines?"
"Coloring in the lines is the whole point. That's why they have lines," I said.
"That's where you're wrong. The lines are there just to hold you in. Like a prison. Think what you might have created if there hadn't been any lines. — Eileen Cook

Annamaria had preferred oil rather than electric lamps. She said that sunshine grows plants, the plants express essential oils, and years later those oils fire the lamps - giving back 'the light of the other days'. — Dean Koontz

It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do. — Edmund Morgan

Annamaria insists that mere hours earlier, I saved entire cities, sparing many hundreds of thousands from nuclear terrorism. Even if that is most likely true, I feel as though, in the process, I have forfeited a piece of my soul. — Dean Koontz

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best. — Dean Koontz

If breakups are like deaths, then ex sightings are like seeing a ghost: you feel goose bumps, near loss of bladder control, and the sensation of your heart bursting in your throat. The distinction is that the ex is alive. — Daria Snadowsky

The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts. — Sathya Sai Baba

At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is? — Dean Koontz

Nobody's inherently bad, said Annamaria. It's all about the choices we make.
And the Deceiver, said Blossom, is always there to whisper the wrong choice in your ear. But I believe remorse can lead to redemption. — Dean Koontz

Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved. — Dean Koontz

Hunter wondered if there was any possible way he could have made this interaction more awkward.
Here. Let me give you a concussion and then scare you. — Brigid Kemmerer

Life is a foggy road. You may come across anything on the road. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well. — Dean Koontz

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you. — Dean Koontz

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others. — Dean Koontz

Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand.
"Nice teamwork," Edward murmured. — Stephenie Meyer

For generation means that the begetter produces out of his essence offspring similar in essence. But creation and making mean that the creator and maker produces from that which is external, and not out of his own essence, a creation of an absolutely dissimilar nature(3). — John Damascene

Be afraid in proportion to the threat. — Dean Koontz

Some people's inner child is a colicky baby. — Annamaria Alfieri

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. — Bertolt Brecht

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart. — Dean Koontz