Odd Thomas Quotes & Sayings

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

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

A document from the reign of King Henry VIII described one of the two actual axes used for the beheadings. The story was that the relic was displayed in the church; it gave both the church and the street their odd names. In the early 1560s refugees from Spain used it as a place of worship but by then it was in a state of disrepair. It was demolished shortly thereafter, taken down to the foundation. Another building, the one which Thomas and Belinda Russell owned today, was built in 1620 on the ruins of the ancient church. — Bill Thompson

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

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

When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice.
Hannibal Lecter — Thomas Harris

I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy. — Jim Butcher

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

Odd, yes, here in the capital of eternal youth, endless summer and all, that fear should be running the town again as in days of old, like the Hollywood blacklist you don't remember and the Watts rioting you do - it spreads, like blood in a swimming pool, till it occupies all the volume of the day. And then maybe some playful soul shows up with a bucketful of piranhas, dumps them in the pool, and right away they can taste the blood. They swim around looking for what's bleeding, but they don't find anything, all of them getting more and more crazy, till the craziness reaches a point. Which is when they begin to feed on each other. — Thomas Pynchon

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 get an odd, intimate, and amusing sensation from having him sit on my foot and warm it with the blood-heat of his body. A pervasive feeling of sympathy and good cheer fills me, as almost invariably when in his company and looking at things from his angle. — Thomas Mann

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

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

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

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

It was easy not to like the other foreigners. I wondered how I'd fallen in with such a band of freaks. There were so many odd, wandering types
a host of bent Australians, warped British, tainted Canadians, tormented runaway Americans. (I considered myself fairly well balanced among this cast, but then look what became of me.) I'd expected it to a certain degree, but I was still surprised. Most of them seemed like misfits. Only a few content. But all of us found teaching work with astounding ease. It didn't matter that, on the whole, we were ragged and suspect because the demand for English in Korea was so great that almost anyone was accepted. — Cullen Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed. — Thomas Browne

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

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

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

Thomas looked like he was about to talk some smack at the malk, but only for a second. Then he frowned and said, "It's odd. You sound like ... like a grade-school teacher."
"Perhaps it is because I am speaking to a child," Cat Sith said. "The comparison is apt."
Thomas blinked several times and then he looked at me. "Did the evil kitty just call me a child? — Jim Butcher

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

Smog hung all round the horizon, the sun on the bright beige countryside was painful; she and the Chevy seemed parked at the centre of an odd, religious instant. As if, on some other frequency, or out of the eye of some whirlwind rotating too slow for her heated skin even to feel the centrifugal coolness of, words were being spoken. — Thomas Pynchon

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

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 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

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

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

Sometimes, something meaningless occurs, somewhere with meaning. — F. Thomas Vincent

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

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

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

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

You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd! — Eric Thomas

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

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

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