The Friend of the Family Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“To believe that the human conscience can guarantee a stable and worthy society is akin to the delusion that the arc of the universe bends toward justice. Forever expanding in all directions, the universe has no arc, and in many people the human conscience is as atrophied as their appendix.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“eidolon, a phantom shaped by a sleeper’s mind.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Happiness and despair are choices to be made. If I hadn’t embraced books and lived in the worlds within their pages, I might have sunk into despair, unable to see the light even when it shone.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“I felt as if I were in an English novel, in a story rife with challenges and travails that would nonetheless end in justice and gladness.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“The relationship with a good dog is closer to perfection than that with another human rarely manages to be. They are innocent, and we are not. They ask so little of us, but give so much.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“We exist now as we have always existed, as everyone now alive exists if they dare to admit it—forever in a mystery so strange and so profound that it cannot be solved. Such is the world.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Grief can never be adequately described, and every effort to do so diminishes it. The best of novelists tell us that grief will in time subside from painful, excruciating anguish to enduring sorrow that takes a more modest toll of the heart.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family

“Enjoy life but stay alert. Always trust in the rightness of the world. But stay alert. Never be bitter or despairing. But stay alert. Life is a great gift. Love and mercy are the promise of it. But stay alert.”
― Dean Koontz, The Friend of the Family