Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)

by Dean Koontz

perseverance.

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

“You know what’s wrong with nature,” I asked her, “with all its poison plants, predatory animals, earthquakes, and floods?”

“When we envied, when we killed for what we envied, we fell. And when we fell, we broke the whole shebang, nature, too.”

“Son, you can’t fix a broken thing by breaking another part of it. You understand me?”

“Giving up—that would be breaking another part of yourself.”