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Dean Koontz
Author profile
born
in Everett, Pennsylvania, The United States
July 09, 1945
gender
male
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Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)
— published 2003 — 56 editions |
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Watchers
— published 1987 — 61 editions |
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Intensity
— published 1991 — 48 editions |
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Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)
— published 2005 — 42 editions |
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Phantoms
— published 1983 — 20 editions |
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Velocity
— published 2005 — 45 editions |
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Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)
— published 2006 — 41 editions |
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Lightning
— published 1988 — 53 editions |
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False Memory
— published 1999 — 39 editions |
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The Husband
— published 2006 — 47 editions |
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January 2011,
Dean Koontz
"His Favorite Ghost Stories: The craftsman of creepy shares his favorite ghost stories in honor of his new thriller, What the Night Knows, about a rampaging killer who reawakens from the dead." ...More
"His Favorite Ghost Stories: The craftsman of creepy shares his favorite ghost stories in honor of his new thriller, What the Night Knows, about a rampaging killer who reawakens from the dead." ...More
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“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
― Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing
― Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing
“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin to see that it wasn't just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year
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