The Good Guy Quotes

“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.

Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“Maybe it was this: The name of a person marked for murder is just a name, but the face makes real the cost of violence, for if we have the nerve to look, we can see in any face our own vulnerability.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“He, too, had been glassed-in for a long time, by choice. Now and then he had lifted a hammer to shatter through to something, but he had never struck the blow because he didn't know what he wanted on the other side of the glass.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“By their subtle reversal of all images, mirrors seemed to be windows to another world in opposistion to this one, a world where everything appeared familiar but was infact profoundly different”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“Gradually, however, she revealed a frustration with the willful ignorance that is an abiding human trait, an indignation at the cruelty that people visit upon one another. She might see the world as hopeless, but she believed it did not have to remain that way.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“The killer walked with a light step that could be achieved only by someone not weighed down with a conscience, and went out into the night's embrace.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“Sudden falls can come to societies that know too little history or that have furnished their minds with easy one-note propaganda in place of the true complexity and terrible beauty of the storied past.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of its name.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“To the police," Lily said [speaking of five murders], "these five brutal murders are less than coincidence. One of them told me, 'There's no conspiracy, Lily. It's just life.' How do they come to think this way--that death is life? That unnatural death and murder are somehow a natural part of life?”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“A man’s life can pivot on the smallest hinge of time. No minute is without potential for momentous change, and each tick of the clock might be the voice of Fate whispering a promise or a warning.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“And anyway, things have a way of happening that force you to be what you are.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“So many people spend their lives in jobs they hate, and that's worse.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“All that was considered evil on this side of the glass might be judged good on the other side. Truth here might be lies there, and the future might precede the past.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“Already he knew the future. He was making it.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“The thing pursuing him, however, was not only his past but also his fate, and the rails that led away from it also led inexorably to it.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“You wanted it once. You don't go as far as wanting it and then not wanting it anymore. A man's mind doesn't work that way.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“A man's life can pivot on the smallest hinge of time. No minute is without potential for momentous change, and each tick of the clock might be the voice of Fate whispering a promise or a warning.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“You need somebody to work for besides who pays you, somebody special to build something with, to share a future with.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“To be a winner, you gotta be in the game.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“T. S. Eliot: LIFE YOU MAY EVADE, BUT DEATH YOU SHALL NOT.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“I was born under a glass heel, and have always lived there,’” Tim quoted.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“But once in a while, they have to see one of their own get his package cut off just so they’ll stop and wonder if maybe there is a god.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can cover a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy