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Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark.


Dean Koontz

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I...
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Nobody knows what the cause is,
Though some pretend they do;
I...
W. H. AUDEN . . .because we had survived
sisters and brothers, daughters and sons,
we discovered bones...
LISEL MUELLER Find out what faith is and how you can put it into practice.
Learn how to pray, and do it.
J. GRANT HOWARD Oppression

Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To...
LANGSTON HUGHES This is your time
This is your dance
Live every moment
Leave nothing to chance
Swim ...
MICHAEL W. SMITH For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-myster...
E.E. CUMMINGS Let me say right now for the record,
I’m still going to be here
asking this world to dan...
ANDREA GIBSON If you never love you never hurt
If you never hurt you've never lived.
Love in life and em...
SOPHIA NAM Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER Embrace contradictions
for they make up
all of life:
You will eternally be
loo...
KAMAND KOJOURI It offends me when you doubt my love.
These jealousies are unwarranted.
If only you lived ...
KAMAND KOJOURI The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock an...
ALLEN GINSBERG When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on t...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)

He puts his cheek against mine
...
MARY OLIVER In the nightmare of the dark
All the dogs of Europe bark,
And the living nations wait,
W.H. AUDEN They tell us the only way to move on
is to forget.
“Forgive,” they say.
Realise ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, se...
MICHAEL ENDE I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard...
BIBLE TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE

People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run o...
NIKITTA GILL the writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the man...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Fight against and fall.
Instead, embrace it all.
Allow 'what is' to fill your
inner-...
KELLY MARTIN In all the flames of fire fume’s left the trace
Into the bluest sea the sky is drowned
T...
MUNIA KHAN You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity

The most modern European is you Pope ...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
Each secret fishy hope or fear.
Fish say, they have their S...
RUPERT BROOKE You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for t...
SHERMAN ALEXIE Well any man with a microphone
can tell you what he loves the most
and you know why you love...
JACK WHITE They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us ...
KAMAND KOJOURI The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
KATE DICAMILLO I tell you this, and I tell you plain
What you have done, you will do again
You will bite ...
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Don’t worry…three vampire meanies and a horse won’t keep me away from you.”

Kali...
KAILIN GOW A Work of Art
... is not a living thing ...
that walks or runs.
But the making of a life...
LOUIS KAHN Girl, bite. Girl, devour. Girl, don't forgive.
Girl, stay angry. Girl, be selfish.
Girl, w...
CAITLYN SIEHL They miss the whisper that runs
any day in your mind,
"Who are you really, wanderer?"-- WILLIAM STAFFORD God abides in men"

"God abides in men,
These are men who are simple,
they are f...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER Silly. Dark isn’t scary. Dark is safe.”
“Why?”
“I live in the dark all the time...
KIERSTEN WHITE Beauty is frightening," they will tell you —

Lazily you will arrange

A Spani...
ALEXANDER BLOK Intoxicate me with the beauty
and breath of your soul.
Leave such imprints on my heart MELODY LEE Nothing can escape death.
Not even the Sun.
Not even the Earth.
Not even the unive...
HINA YU The Prodigal Son

They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red,
SHANNON L. ALDER We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We met at a cross-roads in life,
But we were going different directions.
We were part of e...
MARGO T. ROSE Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI And they say
She's in the class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been that way since eigh...
ED SHEERAN Our bodies knock

and we pretend like we can't hear

They knock to tell us to ...
MALEBO SEPHODI You
are the poem
I never knew
how to write
and this life
is the story
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON On Generosity

On our own, we conclude:
there is not enough to go around

w...
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel...
EMILY DICKINSON Ladies,

I have bad news for you. Men are pigs. No really. I know you think you know what ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day

It will begin to happen
Again o...
شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی You have a color of your own- Dark chocolate,
You have a culture your own- Hip pop,
You ha...
LUFFINA LOURDURAJ I have something to tell you."

"How, you have something to tell me?"

"You have...
STEVEN BRUST Everyone always thinks they're the good guys,' said Ruby.
'Yes they do,' said LB. 'But happily ...
LAUREN CHILD Science which has become a great power in the last
century, has analyzed everything divine hande...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY That thing you thought you'd do
You start to think you can't;
You always say tomorrow,
MARGO T. ROSE Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.
On my shoulders I support the sky.
Trust me to kno...
ROBERT JORDAN SEA OF LIFE

This is not the end, my friend.
Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit...
SUZY KASSEM there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind

while some ...
SANOBER KHAN And then you leave the memories behind.
When you look at the pictures
It seems like it wa...
ARZUM UZUN But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture
Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good;
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE UNFORGIVEN


Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:
...
SUZY KASSEM This land, although not my native land,
Will be remembered forever.
And the sea's lightly ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This is your life. Do what you want and do it often.
If you don't like something, change it. <...
HOLSTEE MANIFESTO I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
Tell me why you loved...
ANDREA GIBSON The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults
and all? Why do you place us ...
OSCAR WILDE ENDURANCE

I don't know you,
But I love you,
Just as God loves me and you.
...
SUZY KASSEM What is life?
Life is living in this moment,
experiencing and experimenting
but ex...
KAMAND KOJOURI Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But...
RUPERT BROOKE Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbe...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Monsters, monsters, big and small,
"They're gonna come and eat you all.
Corsai, Corsai, to...
VICTORIA SCHWAB But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.
A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (fairy tale).
i wanna tell you a joke
but it will be like the frog finds the princess ZELDA GIN The dead do not need
aspirin or
sorrow,
I suppose.
but they might need
rain...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI She moaned, long and low, wanting to arch, to thrash, to scream. Instead she opened her mouth and bi...
ELIZABETH HOYT Please do not look only at the dark side

All the newspapers in the free world explain why...
THOMAS MERTON Lovers dream of one more embrace.
One more kiss.
One act of love, no matter how small.
KAMAND KOJOURI It’s a jungle out there,
So you best beware,
There are creatures lurking, that just don�...
EVERETT R. LAKE In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
EDITH HAMILTON But suppose the endlessly dead were to
wake in us some emblem:
they might point to the ca...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate...
COLIN POWELL We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
u...
MAYA ANGELOU And brilliant days come alive,

with you,

around

but the things we d...
ANDREA KOEHLE JONES And there you are
on the shore,

fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The minority (the considered one percent of the one percent of the one percent of the one percent of...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE An angel for some,
a demon for some,
for me, it’s heart of the one.
Never want to h...
ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGH For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this gre...
JOHN MILTON They're gonna get us', she cried as he tried to hold her tight. She was like a wild animal fighting ...
THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER The word
was born in the blood,
grew in the dark body, beating,
and took flight through the...
PABLO NERUDA You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
Humans don't like that.
They view it as a sign ...
PATRICK JENNINGS I am walking down to the oak tree. And
I see that the tunnel is slightly wet, but
I jump i...
SANDRA HARNER I write poetry, worry, smile,
laugh
sleep
continue for a while
just like most of...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has ma...
EDMUND WALLER

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DEAN KOONTZ The world was a maze of mysteries and puzzles, but it was a world of rational design that did not pr...
DEAN KOONTZ Damn it, there is no world if there is not a human eye to see it, no world of any purpose or meaning...
DEAN KOONTZ Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human...
DEAN KOONTZ In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of...
DEAN KOONTZ Patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives, and the most common pattern is the circle.
DEAN KOONTZ Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes ...
DEAN KOONTZ Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, ...
DEAN KOONTZ Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force u...
DEAN KOONTZ In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it ...
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