Phantoms Quotes

“Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“The mild wind made the trees sway gently, in a lullaby rhythm, and the resultant susurration was like the soft sighs and dreamy murmurs of a thousand peacefully slumbering children.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“She turned to him, shook her head. Her black hair tossed, and the beams of the late-afternoon sunlight played upon it, sending brief ripples of red and green and blue through it the same way that light, shimmering on the black surface of oil, creates short-lived, wriggling rainbows.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“There is the silence of death, found in tombs and deserted graveyards and in the cold-storage room in a city morgue and in hospital rooms on occasion; it is a flawless silence, not merely a hush but a void.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“mankind was, in reality, the most ruthless, dangerous, unforgiving species on earth.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“He saw that, without exception, human beings were driven by self-interest.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“But all organic matter must have cell structure,” Sara said. “Cell structure is virtually a definition of organic matter, a requisite of all living tissue, plant or animal.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“If he was seeing what he thought he was seeing, the thing at the window was a moth as large as an eagle. Which was madness.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“The noises on the roof stopped. The six waited. The night seemed to be crouched like a wild thing, studying its prey, timing its attack.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“As you know, Bob, what with DNA analysis, this whole business is getting highly sophisticated these days. Why, they can break down a sample into so many signatures that a person’s blood is almost as unique as his fingerprints.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“Even decent people must occasionally choose between the lesser of two evils.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“the competiton among power-mad politicians and the Machiavellian backstabbing of junior executives in a major corporation are as nothing, in terms of ruthlessness and spitefulness, when compared to the behavior of academic types who suddenly see an opportunity to climb the university ladder at the expense of one of their own.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“Even though she knew it wasn't biologically possible for her heart to rise into her throat, she swallowed it anyway.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“That was when you discovered she’d recently begun using PCP—what’s sometimes called ‘angel dust’ on the street.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“complete stop”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“There’s no use wasting energy being afraid of devils, demons, and things that go bump in the night . . . because ultimately, we’ll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monsters among us. Hell is where we make it.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms

“When you come right down to it, maybe the only real devils are human beings; not all of us; not the species as a whole; just the ones who’re twisted, the ones who somehow never acquire empathy or compassion. If the shape-changer was the Satan of mythology, perhaps the evil in human beings isn’t a reflection of the devil; perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our own kind. Maybe what we’ve done is . . . create the devil in our own image.”
― Dean Koontz, Phantoms