The Other Emily

by Dean Koontz

vodka and Coke.

Never heard of vodka in coke before hmm

The human heart might be, as they said, deceitful, but it seemed to him that it was no less stoic than deceitful, and glorious in its capacity for charity, devotion, friendship, tenderness, and love. One of his novels had explored three questions.

What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? He had thought that he’d found the limits of a man’s capacity for sacrifice in that story, but he realized that he had failed to plumb those questions adequately.

This passage is deeply profound 🤯🤯

The pistol had been knocked from his hand. He scrambled after it, seized it, rolled onto his back, and squeezed off a shot that missed David’s head by the width of grace.

𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒍 😅😅

A rushing sound. Like a flight of dark birds, an enormous flock. But it wasn’t birds at all, only the susurration of his own blood eerily audible to him, his life in circulation through his arteries and veins.

𝑰𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅.

Even in torrential downpours, lightning rarely troubled the sky along the California coast. But the heavens were electrified on this occasion, and great blazing spears struck down to sizzle on the surface of the black and tossing sea.

𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒕𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 😍

Even in his own time, evil players often did not recognize their own evil, thought themselves paragons of virtue, proclaimed themselves champions of justice to justify violence, with no understanding that justice is often subjective, that the pursuit of justice is not the same, not as worthy, as the pursuit of hard, objective truth; and judging by what he’d learned,

𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍 𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕