Cody > Cody's Quotes

“For the first time ever, I felt ashamed of my species. The volcano had taken our homes, our food, our automobiles, and our airplanes, but it hadn't taken our humanity. No, we'd given that up on our own.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was a wicked pervert who would cut off my peepee with a pair of scissors...if I didn't stop chattering about him, he would be certain to put me on his list and look me up.
Christmas was never the same after that, but at least I still have my peepee.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.”
― Dean Koontz

“Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

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

“We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Live you can evade; death you cannot.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“These days law thinks it's about nothin' but laws. Law don't remember it was once handed down from somewhere, that it once meant not just no, but was a way to live and a reason to live that way. Law now thinks nobody but politicians made it or remake it, so maybe it ain't a surprise some people don't care anymore about law, and even some lawmen don't understand the real reason for law.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“How passionately we love everything that cannot last...”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“The only way back is the way forward.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose-if we dare.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Ozzie Boone...insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative. Ozzie counsels me that melancholy is a self-indulgent form of sorrow.
By writing in an unrelievedly dark mode, he warns, the writer risks culturing darkness in his heart, becoming the very thing that he decries.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another...Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“When making his music, he [Elvis Presley] had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scrips for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“People created chaos, not places, and they were damned good at it no matter where they lived. And when this glittering gem of a city teamed up with the world's oldest profession, fantasy piled atop fantasy; it could convince anyone that impulse was a virtue, not a vice.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“Why the hell was she smiling like that?...Her mouth was blown so wide that the soft insides showed at the corners, like another grin was building in there. As if her laughter tumbled. Like joy was a living thing.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“Success, she [Evie] claimed, made people want to trust you.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“...a companion had seemed unnecessary fuel when her body still burned at the core, waiting to ignite. But now, with the wind blowing icicles through her [Kit] veins, it felt like she, too, was in the grave. All her nuclear energy had been snuffed like a match between the night's icy fingers.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“But many details were considered too small and mundane for the Centurions' purposes. They tapped the mud too briefly for things like new-fangled coffee-makers to matter. Instant coffee that tasted like a wet dream was apparently one of them.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“She needed facts. Facts were bricks. Maybe she could build herself a wall with them, too, one tall and wide and strong enough to keep her alive when he was gone.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“ 'Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.' ”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“ 'We've all had judgement lapses that had us tiptoeing toward our own personal apocalypse.' ”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“ 'It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you...At the end of your life, all you have is what you know.' ”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“Even now...she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“ 'I scrape under a nail and I pull out dirt. I pull off an overlay and I smell urine. It's the rot of their lives seeping into their nailbeds, you see? They can fix their hair and paint their nails and run on a treadmill until they're anorexia's poster child, but they can't fix their lives...lives of rotting perfection.' ”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken

“ 'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.' ”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Taken