Your Heart Belongs to Me Quotes

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss. ”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“He loved her as he had never loved another, and he trusted her as he had allowed himself to trust no one else. But by the nature of the world, those who loved and trusted were uniquely vulnerable”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killer's ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of truth...the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“For a long time, she wept, not so much for him and not at all for herself, but for the condition of all things and for the way the world could be but is not.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Their lovemaking was different from any Ryan had known, rich with desire for a perfect union, yet without lust, giving without taking, receiving without wanting. Tender, selfless, almost innocent, this was a sweet commemoration of all they had been to each other to this point in time, to this fulcrum of their lives, and it was a solemnization of a commitment to be two in one henceforth, to be as one, always one, one forever.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Ryan's parents, no less than Sam's, were of that portion of the post-war generation that rejected the responsibilities of tradition and embraced entitlement. Sometimes it seemed to him that he was the parent, that his mother and father were the children. Regardless of the consequences of their behavior and decisions, they would see no need for redemption. Giving them the chance to earn it would only offend them.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“الحياة تدهمنا بلا توقف بأمور لا نفهمها .. لو حاولت فهم هذه الأمور فلن يبقى لي وقت لأعيش الحياة التي أفهمها.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“The hatred of truth is a vice [...] From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young. —Edgar Allan Poe, “Lenore”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“When you’re trying to figure out who…you’ve got to keep in mind the roots of violence.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Now comes the evening of the mind.
Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood. —Donald Justice, “The Evening of the Mind”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“From the day we’re born, Ryan, we should all be afraid, but not of dying.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Of the qualities that draw a bright woman to a man, truthfulness is equaled only by kindness, courage, and a sense of humor. She had accepted his invitation to dinner, and the months since then had been the happiest of his life.”
― Dean Koontz, Your Heart Belongs to Me