The Friend of the Family Quotes

“humanity repeats the worst mistakes of previous generations and that every free, prosperous civilization will eventually be destroyed by that small fraction of its people who find no satisfaction in anything but anger. Their ceaseless complaints eventually escalate into histrionic violence producing mostly symbolic damage, but that excites the worst thugs among them to commit brutal assaults, then murder, and then mass murder. Soon civilization dissolves in war; the violent bear it away. That”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“I told him he was a good boy, gentle and beautiful and much loved, that this was only his first life and that the next would be in Heaven. “There must be dogs in Heaven,” I assured him, “because they’re better than people. They deserve Heaven more than we do.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Just four days later, April 9, seventy-six thousand exhausted American troops on the Bataan Peninsula, on the primary island of the Philippines, were forced to surrender to the Japanese. Grim news. Already the singular brutality of Hirohito’s army was well known. Much later we would learn that, during the 65-mile forced march to a Japanese prison camp, ten thousand of our troops were bayoneted, shot, or beheaded. Thousands more died of dehydration, starvation, and other preventable causes.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Having money of one’s own was miraculous, and giving it away was more fun than I would have imagined back when I didn’t have any. “It’s not a sin to live well if you’ve earned it,” Loretta told me. “But it’s shameful not to share. The two most dangerous human flaws are greed and envy.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“You can’t be insulted by a skunk when it sprays you. It’s just a scared little animal that has no weapon but its stink.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“God wasn’t to blame. It was bad luck. And by their decisions and their actions, other people make our bad luck—and good luck—for us.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“He did not believe this was a made world with profound meaning or that he had a purpose greater than his own needs and desires if only he could find it. Had he believed as much”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Indeed”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“one does not have to believe in something for it to be a fact.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“World War I, the “war to end all wars,” taught only one lesson to despots—victory required greater savagery than any known before in history.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“His reading of history these past few years taught him a lot”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“loquacious.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“He is a monster, and there’s nothing unusual about dreaming of monsters. Everyone does.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“We all do,” Franklin said softly. “Alida”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“by some quality that surpassed my understanding at that time”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Every child deserves to be loved”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Had he believed as much”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Dreams are conversations with ourselves. We speak to ourselves in metaphors and symbols about subjects from which we shy. One”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Of all that one generation might leave to the next, one of the most important legacies is laughter.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Some unfortunate people have both, and therein lies the cause of all wars, most murders, and untold suffering.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“movie”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“and a new reality is unfurled, body and soul will be sewn together again, as if the threads between them were never broken.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“in a world ruled by the strong, shared weakness spawns a binding sympathy.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Every child deserves to be loved, sweetheart. It’s a hard world, and there’s not much any of us can undertake to make it right. But now and then there’s a little thing that we can do. Now and then like this.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“the only chance we have of being lifted ourselves is by lifting others.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Evil’s intentions are as limited as those of an animal with minimal intelligence”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Mercy Village isn’t worth the time it takes to damn its name.” Franklin was not given to anger often, perhaps because anger is said to be, after pride, the most lethal emotion to the prospects of the soul.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Mercy Village isn’t worth the time it takes to damn its name.” Franklin was not given to anger often, perhaps because anger is said to be, after pride, the most lethal emotion to the prospects of the”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Mass murderers and thieves sleep as soundly as people who have done the right thing every day of their lives.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“What still haunts me is the raucous laughter with which the audience rewarded him, such pitiless laughter ripe with contempt for those who, like me, were weak and less blessed by Nature than the Blue Mood patrons in all their finery. Arrogant laughter born from vanity and ignorance is no less frightening than the shrieking and shouting of an enraged mob bearing torches and pitchforks.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family