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“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.”
― 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, Deeply Odd

“I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse

“Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“...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, Saint Odd

“After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, "Not all wounds are the bleeding kind.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“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, Brother Odd

“Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“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, Saint Odd

“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, Odd Thomas

“It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear of death may be the one emotion that is constant in the human heart even if, most of the time, it is confined to the unconscious as we go about our business. Thrill rides offer us a chance to acknowledge our ever-present dread, to release the tension that arises from repression of it, and to subtly delude ourselves with the illusion of invulnerability that surviving the Big Drop can provide.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“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, Saint Odd

“A part of me knew... from the moment I saw her;
her death would have been one wound too many that day.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours

“Everything barbarians do is nothing, no matter how loudly they insist it's something.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“...to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.”
― Dean koontz, Brother Odd

“I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty. I would miss the complex and charming layers of subterfuge by which the truth of the world's mysteries were withheld from us even as we were tantalized and enchanted by them. I would miss the kindness of good people who were compassionate when so many were pitiless, who made their way through so much corruption without being corrupted themselves, who eschewed envy in a world of envy, who eschewed greed in a world of greed, who valued truth and could not be drowned in a sea of lies, for they shone and, by the light they cast, they warmed me all my life.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“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, Saint Odd

“Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.”
― 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 an 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 delusions 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

“From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity." - Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz”
― Dean Koontz

“I’m not the law. I’m not vigilante justice. I’m not vengeance personified. I don’t really know what I am, or why.
In moments like these, however, I can’t restrain myself from action. A kind of madness comes over me, and I can no more turn away from what must be done than I can wish this fallen world back into a state of grace.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas