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“Now he must deal with the security system, which has recorded everything that he's done. A video camera is mounted over the front door and focused on the cashiers' counter. Edgler Foreman Vess has no desire to see himself on television news. Living with intensity is virtually impossible when one is in prison.”
― Dean Koontz, Intensity

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

“With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.”
― Dean Koontz

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

“Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“In these silences something may rise”
― Stephen King, Desperation

“Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster”
― Stephen King, Desperation

“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“The concept of a weary severed hand, exhausted from relentless creeping, made no sense.”
― Dean Koontz, Prodigal Son

“Nope, nothing wrong here.”
― Stephen King

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“After all, there are other worlds than these and that fuckin train rolls through all of them.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“Does a machine fall sick with sores and puking?" Well, Eddie thought of saying, there was this bear...”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“I don't know what comes next. Mourners please omit flowers, probably, and for all of us. But I don't care.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Stories take a person away. If they're good ones, that is.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.

There is, I think, a fear of love.

There is a fear of love.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Fear is more contagious than the plague and is instantly communicated.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls