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#1

“The pirates would kiss Hayden, and sometimes they would cut off a hank of hair - 'as a reminder of yer kisses, me lad' - and one of them even cut off a piece of his earlobe.
This particular pirate was Bill McGregor, and he was the one Hayden feared the most. Bill McGregor was the worst of them - and at night when everyone else was asleep, Bill McGregor would come looking for Hayden, his step slow and hollow on the planks of the deck, his voice a deep whisper.
Boy,' he would murmur. 'where are you, boy?'
After Bill McGregor cut off the piece of Hayden's earlobe, he decided that he wanted more. Every time he caught Hayden, he would cut a small piece off of him. The skin of an elbow, the tip of a finger, a piece of his lip. He would grip the squirming Hayden and cut a piece off of him, and then Bill McGregor would eat the piece of flesh.”
― Dan Chaon, Await Your Reply

tags: await-your-reply, bill-mcgregor, dan-chaon, hayden, pirates

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#2

“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

tags: alive, dead, frankenstein, life

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#3

“The truth was stranger than the official fiction.”
― Dean Koontz

tags: fiction, frankenstein, strange, truth

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#4

“For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

tags: happiness, path

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#5

“In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.”
― Dean Koontz

tags: purpose, relentless

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#6

“Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

tags: family, force, human-spirt, relentless

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#7

“What has been is no more. Change has come.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

tags: change

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#8

“Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

tags: community, distractions

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#9

“I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

tags: belong, difference, different, reason, together, trust

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#10

“Dear, the man can't be eviscerated because he has no viscera. He's a walking colon. If you cut him open, you only end up covered in crap.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

tags: colon, crap, eviscerated

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#11

“Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.”
― Joan Lowery Nixon, Don't Scream

tags: reality

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#12

“...he dreamed of being director of the FBI instead of attorney general. Considering some of the unsavory characters who had held the latter post, Milo didn't have the credentials for it.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

tags: attorney-general, credentials, fbi

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#13

“I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

tags: baby, potential, seed, wonder

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#14

“That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

tags: interesting, riding, trunk

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#15

“As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

tags: bondage, book, book-critic, critic, wicked-looking

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#16

“Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.”
― Joan Lowery Nixon, The Haunting

tags: believe, ghosts

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#17

“Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.”
― Joan Lowery Nixon, Nightmare

tags: dates, events, history, memories, people

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#18

“...each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear.”
― Joan Lowery Nixon, The Séance: A Paranormal Locked Room Thriller for Young Adults

tags: alone, fear, pillars, seance, suspicion

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#19

“...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.”
― Martha Beck

tags: abuse, controversial, faith, leaving, leaving-the-saints, mormonism, mormons, nibley

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#20

“...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

tags: bright, clean, frankenstein, future, world

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#21

“Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

tags: evil, frankenstein, hope, worth

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#22

“What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

tags: indisputable, life, quicken, truth

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#23

“Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out his ears.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

tags: frankenstein, jocko, salty, sweet

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#24

“...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

tags: exist, imagine, infinite, universe

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#25

“In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night, the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing, one of many of my books in which a dog is among the cast of principal characters. Every time I wrote a story that included a canine, my yearning for a dog grew. Readers and critics alike said I had an uncanny knack for writing convincingly about dogs and even for writing from a dog's point of view. When a story contained a canine character, I always felt especially inspired, as if some angel watching over me was trying to tell me that dogs were a fundamental part of my destiny if only I would listen.”
― Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

tags: angel, destiny, dog, koontz

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#26

“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”
― Dean Koontz, Breathless

tags: commitment, lies, punished, rewarded, truth

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#27

“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: impose, philosophy, science, telephone

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#28

“If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine - well, sadly, then they were better off dead.”
― Dean Koontz, Breathless

tags: wine

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#29

“Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.”
― Dean Koontz, Breathless

tags: light, moon, sun, tomorrow

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#30

“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.”
― The Economist

tags: books, literature, reading

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