Quotes & Sayings About Dean Thomas

I'd take that gum out of the keyhole if I were you, Peeves," he said pleasantly.
Peeves paid no attention to Professor Lupin's words, except to blow a loud wet raspberry.
Professor Lupin gave a small sigh and took out his wand.
"This is a useful little spell," he told the class over his shoulder. "Please watch closely."
He raised the wand to shoulder height, said, "Waddiwasi!" and pointed it at Peeves.
With the force of a bullet, the wad of chewing gum shot out of the keyhole and straight down Peeves's left nostril; he whirled upright and zoomed away, cursing.
"Cool, sir!" said Dean Thomas in amazement.
"Thank you, Dean," said Professor Lupin, putting his wand away again. "Shall we proceed? — J.K. Rowling

Guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. — Dean Koontz

Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more. — Dean Koontz

Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which. — Dean Koontz

Athletes, we were supposed to just be there, and in class I made it a point that I was prepared for every exam, that I got on that Dean's List. Because I wanted them to see that there was a black person on the Dean's List who was an athlete. I accepted the challenge, because I want you to know that we bleed just like you do. We have feelings just like you do. Let us read the same books and we'll understand it just like you do! — Lenny Wilkens

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz

Despite that, for a fleeting moment I have the urge to ask if Dean Thomas is still in Gryffindor, or if he's gone over to Hufflepuff, where I'd always believed he belonged. But my father wouldn't get the joke, and in this case, Dean isn't a first name. — Mimi Cross

A broken thing can't fix itself. — Dean Koontz

When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small. — Dean Koontz

In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate. — Dean Koontz

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them? — Dean Koontz

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either. — Dean Koontz

Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it. — Dean Koontz

More likely, they would just cease to exist."
"That's death."
"No, it's different. Death leaves a corps. — Dean Koontz

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. — Dean Koontz

And where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience. — Dean Koontz

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is. — Dean Koontz

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence. — Dean Koontz

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

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

The less I have, the less I can lose. — Dean Koontz

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

Delayed gratification."
"Yeah, it makes things sweeter."
"Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour. — Dean Koontz

Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life. — Dean Koontz

I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me. — Dean Koontz

That's really specific, ma'am. For a prediction, I mean."
"It's not a prediction."
"It's not? Then what is it?"
"It's what is. — 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

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us. — Dean Koontz

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore. — Dean Koontz

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world. — Dean Koontz

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still. — Dean Koontz

The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53 — Dean Koontz

Because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth. — Dean Koontz

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died.
Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished.
What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle? — Dean Koontz

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy. — Dean Koontz

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

He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it. — Dean Koontz

Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas) — Dean Koontz

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere. — Dean Koontz

Evil never dies. It just changes faces. — Dean Koontz

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power. — Dean Koontz

Of all the spirits I have seen, only Elvis and Mr. Sinatra are able to manifest in the garments of their choice. Others haunt me always in whatever they were wearing when they died.

This is one reason I will never attend a costume party dressed as the traditional symbol of the New Year, in nothing buy a diaper and a top hat. Welcomed into either Hell or Heaven, I do not want to cross the threshold to the sound of demonic or angelic laughter. ~Odd Thomas — Dean Koontz

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas — Dean Koontz

In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to time that is death, the deaths of those we love, but the third and most constant darkness is with us everyday, at all hours of every day, is the darkness of the mind, the pettiness and meanness and hatred, which we have invited into ourselves, and which we pay out with generous interest. — Dean Koontz

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well. — Dean Koontz

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars. — Dean Koontz

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it. — Dean Koontz

Everyone seems to agree that it is Minnesotans' responsibility to assimilate to Somali culture, not the other way around.11 The Catholic University of St. Thomas has installed Islamic prayer rooms and footbaths in order to demonstrate, according to Dean of Students Karen Lange, that the school is "diverse." Minneapolis's mayor, Betsy Hodges, has shown up wearing a full hijab to meetings with Somalis. (In fairness, it was "Forbid Your Daughter to Work Outside the Home" Day.) — Ann Coulter

From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be. — Dean Koontz

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

In time she said, "I love you, Oddie."
My voice was thick when I replied. "I love you more than life."
"We'll be okay," she said.
"We are okay."
"We're weird and screwed-up, but we're okay," she agreed.
"If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would melt under my tongue. But you-you're cool. — Dean Koontz

On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM.
For ever and ever.
In the red light, the brushed steel glowed softly, like embers. The polish letters blazed.
Without a hiss, For ever and ever slid aside, as though inviting me to eternity. — Dean Koontz

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that. — Dean Koontz

Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit. — Dean Koontz

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern — Dean Koontz

I feel like I've been sliding all day. — Dean Koontz

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world. — Dean Koontz

He looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him ... — Dean Koontz

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck. — Dean Koontz

Mr. Thomas, did you know that in an experiment with a human observer, subatomic particles behave differently from the way they behave when the experiment is observed while in progress and the results are examined, instead, only after the fact?"
"Sure. Everybody knows that."
He raised one bushy eyebrow. "Everybody, you say. Well then you realize what this signifies."
I said, "At least on an subatomic level, human will can in part shape reality. — Dean Koontz

Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever - no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all. — Dean Koontz

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. - Thomas Mann, The Beloved Returns — Dean Koontz

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain. — Dean Koontz

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings ... — Dean Koontz

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it ... — Dean Koontz

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time. — Dean Koontz

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning. — Dean Koontz

An age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not ... — Dean Koontz

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves. — Dean Koontz

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world ... — Dean Koontz

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create. — Dean Koontz

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace. — Dean Koontz

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart. — Dean Koontz

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."
I said, "She never has. — Dean Koontz

Because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours. — Dean Koontz

Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they got is strut, they ain't got the guts to back up the brag — Dean Koontz

The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is.
To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be with us in the future until the end point. Only time conquers time and its burdens. There is no grief before or after time, which is all the consolation we should need. — Dean Koontz

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved. — Dean Koontz

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

Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are. — Dean Koontz

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

Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. — Dean Koontz

And because it was so wonderful, I slipped back down into that dream of dogs and children and beautiful people who met my eyes and knew me in full, knew me and did not reject me. — Dean Koontz

Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels ... — Dean Koontz

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential. — Dean Koontz

It had sure felt like death, but then everything since had felt like life. — Dean Koontz

Everything barbarians do is nothing, no matter how loudly they insist it's something. — Dean Koontz

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see. — Dean Koontz

You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again. — Dean Koontz

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty. — Dean Koontz

After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, Not all wounds are the bleeding kind. — Dean Koontz

When my wits fail me, I resort to self-deception. — Dean Koontz

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping. — Dean Koontz

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn. — Dean Koontz

On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head. — Dean Koontz

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert. — Dean Koontz

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8 — Dean Koontz

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

Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute. — Dean Koontz

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace. — Dean Koontz