Darkness Under the Sun Quotes

“There's always a parade, Howie. When it's something you can't ever join but only watch, then it's a parade”
― Dean Koontz, Darkness Under the Sun

“He realized things that other boys his age would not, including that life was hard but sweet, that life was a long series of losses and that you had to hold on tight to what you loved as long as you had any strength left. He knew that evil dwelt behind kind and familiar faces but that not all evil was hidden, that sometimes evil was brazen because it knew you didn’t want to believe it existed, and it mocked you by its brazenness. He realized that no one could save the world because the world didn’t want to be saved, that all he could hope to rescue from the fires of this world were those who were most precious to him, his family and—if he ever had any—his friends, and that it was prideful in the extreme to think he could do more, just as it might be damning not to try.”
― Dean Koontz, Darkness Under the Sun

“did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us when we least expect it.”
― Dean Koontz, Darkness Under the Sun