Ricochet Joe

by Dean Koontz

Whatever task you’ve taken, whatever fight you’re facing, you must bring to it nothing less than everything you’ve got, or otherwise you’ll fail for sure and always wonder what might have been if only you had given your all.

Our illusion is that we travel through life on a calculated and straight trajectory, from the past through present into future, on a journey to understanding, truth, reward. But by Brownian movement we progress, sent angling off this way and that by the impact of everyone we meet and every event that we cannot foresee.

here at the end of all things. Sabers of lightning eviscerated the thunderheads, and rain chased down the night in torrents.

you knew you were getting a little wisdom when you were able to see that even loss could be beautiful if it made you love more the things that hadn’t been lost.

Sometimes the lights of habitation were many, sometimes they were few and far between in the distance, but he cherished all of them and wondered what lives they illuminated.