Lightning Quotes

“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“There were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity; and those who, having not been loved, learned to thrive on hatred, suspicion, and the meager rewards of revenge.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“That was the splendid thing about life: Though it was cruel, it was also mysterious, filled with wonder and surprise; sometimes the surprises were so amazing that they qualified as miraculous, and by witnessing those miracles, a despondent person could discover a reason to live, a cynic could obtain unexpected relief from ennui, and a profoundly wounded boy could find the will to heal himself and medicine for melancholy.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Adversity breeds toughness, and the tough succeed. And survive.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Your past is my Future.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“I'd accept defeat. fighting doesn't preclude enduring.I can fight, and if fighting fails I can still endure.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be. But sometimes, happily, it fails.
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Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be,(...) And sometimes, happily, it succeeds.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”
― Dean R. Koontz, Lightning

“She was plagued again by the feeling that the room in which she stood, the earth on which it was built, and the universe in which it turned were as insubstantial as smoke, subject to sudden change.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Understanding wasn't always necessary, as long as you believed.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“there were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity; and those who, having not been loved, learned to thrive on hatred, suspicion, and the meager rewards of revenge. They were at once scornful of the need for human feeling and envious of the capacity for it.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.” 5”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“What’s gotten into you today? All evening”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“In the film industry, especially in the TV branch, there is a widespread contempt for the viewing public, which explains why the great majority of films are boring and stupid.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Envy, Bob. Envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Readers are not sheep. They are wolves, filled with curiosity, adventurous, always hungry for a tasty treat with at least a little substance to it.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Understanding wasn’t always necessary, as long as you believed.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“When you’re on the run from the law, you need beans in your belly, tough-guy food.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“she was only a storyteller, a weaver of tales, who worked with a loom of language, making a special fabric from words.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be. But sometimes, happily it fails.
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Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be, (...) And sometimes, happily, it succeeds.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Within a few weeks Laura realized that there were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity; and those who, having not been loved, learned to thrive on hatred, suspicion, and the meager rewards of revenge. They were at once scornful of the need for human feeling and envious of the capacity for it.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

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― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“You might point to Gone With the Wind and ask me to remind you which of its colorful cast was a canine, and I could say only that Scarlett O’Hara, while not a dog, was something of a bitch.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning