Eileen Reeger > Eileen's Quotes

“The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
― Dean Koontz

“In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.”
― Dean Koontz, Dragon Tears

“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”
― Dean Koontz

“Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

“I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn."
Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.
Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

“And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.”
― Eoin Colfer, Benny and Babe

“Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl

“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”
― Dean Koontz

“If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.”
― Dean Koontz, Seize the Night

“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. ”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Alliteration seems to offend people.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
― Dean Koontz, Intensity

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.”
― Dean Koontz, The Taking

“Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.”
― Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year

“Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.”
― Tad Williams

“A teenage girl creaming while she listens to some boy-band, a monk digging on the God he hears in Gregorian chants, or John fucking Coltrane himself climbing up into the sky on a staircase made of sixteenth notes, it's all the same. If it takes you there, it's good.”
― Tad Williams

“... Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“All of us humans have myriad other species to thank. Without them, we couldn't exist. It's that simple, and we can't afford to ignore them, anymore than I can afford to neglect my precious wife--nor the sweet mother Earth that births and holds us all.

Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“As to my mouth, of all my features, I wish I could possess my mouth again, just as it had been before the fire. I had my mother’s lips, generous below and above; and what kissing I had practiced, mainly on my hand or on a lonely pig, had convinced me that my lips would be the source of my good fortune. I would kiss with them, and lie with them, I would make victims and willing slaves of anyone my eyes desired, simply by talking a little, and following the talk with kisses, and the kisses with demands. And they’d melt into compliance, everyone of them, happy to perform the most demeaning acts as long as I was there to reward them with a long, tongue-tied kiss when they were done. But the fire didn’t spare my lips; it took them too, erasing them utterly.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand