The Bad Weather Friend Quotes

“Many of your friends will be fair-weather friends, Benjamin, but I will be there in bad weather, in worse weather, in any weather.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Weddings are all alike, except for those where gunfire breaks out or the groom’s first wife from whom he was never divorced shows up uninvited with their seven children.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“A person couldn’t expect to glide through life, good luck always breaking his way, the worst kind of bad luck befalling only other people. Sooner or later, you had to take it in the shorts, as they say, bite the bullet or maybe even bite the dust. A moment of grave misfortune must be near at hand.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“He was considered to be by far the smartest boy at Briarbush and was therefore envied and hated by the 95 percent of his classmates who feared he would become president of the United States before they did.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Being able to support a thriving family was what drove him to work so hard.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Charismatic people were born with charisma; it wasn’t something that could be learned or ordered from Amazon,”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“One thing common to all of us in this life, if we are wise enough to understand, is that we live always under one threat or another and must never let our guard all the way down.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“The place settings at the tables did not, not, not include little cups of those almonds in hard-candy shells that are usually provided at wedding receptions, the absence of which contributed to everyone’s good mood.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Nose, septum, lips, jaw, chin, other jaw—no element of his face was given short shrift, as if she were not his lover, but relied on a facial recognition program to identify him.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“He had sustained the loss of an eye in one of the Middle East wars that politicians were eager to fight and just as eager to lose.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“He suspected that her lovers had a life expectancy approximately that of the mate to a female praying mantis.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“But remember me, Dooley Peebles. Remember me if ever the world goes so wrong that there seems no way to make it right again.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Destiny buddies. You cannot survive without me, but you don’t have to try. You no longer have to walk alone through the darkness and storms of this world. I will never let you down.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Niceness plus free will minus wisdom equals sudden and horrific death.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“And so it seems that, as a reader collaborates with an author to envision the story being told in a novel, so all of us collaborate with some author unknown to imagine what occurs in our world as it is and as it will become. In that case, to at least some extent, to a degree we cannot know, we possess the power to weave the lives that will bring us happiness if we’re wise enough to be nice, but not so nice that we’re foolish, and if we realize that our free will and creativity should be used with humility rather than to acquire power to oppress others.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“And so it seems that, as a reader collaborates with an author to envision the story being told in a novel, so all of us collaborate with some author unknown to imagine what occurs in our world as it is and as it will become.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Fantasies can become realities. There’s no reason that craggles couldn’t be as real as trains and cranes and girls named Jane. That is a conclusion to which the discoveries in physics over the past century lead us if we have the imagination and courage to think through the evidence.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Then there was the attraction—the thrill—of all things mysterious, dark, hidden, and occult. Especially for young people trapped and being propagandized in the stupefying depths of modern education, the unknown and the unknowable offered the possibility of discovering the meaning of life that they had thus far been told did not exist.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“In that case”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“When you called attention to yourself, there were bad people who would decide to do things to you that you didn’t want to be done.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Harper remembered something her parents told her: How you live your life will earn the face you have in years to come; if you think you’re superior to others”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“(The playwright Eugene O’Neill said, “The past is the present. It’s the future, too. We all try to lie out of that, but life won’t let us.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“basking in the smiles of their friends.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“One thing common to all of us in this life, if we are wise enough to understand, is that we live always under one threat or another and must never let our guard all the way down. That is why you, though not Benny, can be thrust into a state of suspense even if the chapter ends not with immediate peril but merely with the name Talmadge Clerkenwell.)”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“All concerns about falling off the roof were in that instant forgotten. The three boys scrambled across the cast pavers as if they, too, were part insect. How they got onto the ladder and in what order they descended and with what ungodly racket Benny could not say. In what seemed like an instant, they went from roof to terra firma, the beam of Mengistu’s Tac Light stabbing this way and that, here and over there, as if he expected to find that they were encircled by mortal threats. Fright left them incapable of defense; they were jelly-spined morsels of bug food waiting to be torn apart by enormous mandibles.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Having come from Boca Raton, Florida, in a crate, Spike took an almost childlike delight in driving the Explorer. “There’s nothing quite so invigorating, so freeing, as piloting a gasoline-powered vehicle along an open road. Years from now, when all the vehicles are electric, when tens of millions of acres of Earth’s surface have been destroyed by open-pit mining for the enormous quantities of lithium and cobalt and nickel and copper required for EVs, when thousands of new landfills have been crammed full of batteries that can’t be recycled and are leaking horrifying toxins into the water table, when thousands of square miles of windmills have made extinct hundreds of species of birds with disastrous environmental effects, I will still—always, always—remember this special and exhilarating night, chauffeuring you two hither and yon in the dogged pursuit of justice, my destiny buddies.” From the back seat, Harper said, “I am strangely moved—and I do mean strangely.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Colonel Clerkenwell was courteous, so affable and at ease that it seemed he must have spent his life loving and being loved through a long smoothness of days. He was also mysterious.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“Man is born unto trouble as sure as sparks fly upward.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“I want you to be happy, so it’s better by far you should forget me and smile than that you should remember me and be sad.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend

“White chocolate sucks. It isn’t really chocolate. White chocolate is a fraud.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Weather Friend