Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.


Dean Koontz

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Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force u...
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In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it ...
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In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen mom...
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I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having...
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and p...
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Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I sai...
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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.
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Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...
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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.
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I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

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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.
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From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
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That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
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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.
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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.
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The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
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The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
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Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
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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 ...
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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...
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The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
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But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
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You amaze me and scare me. I can’t figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, b...
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