Strangers Quotes

“I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills.”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“For a better part of a decade, he had been outside society, distanced in mind and spirit if not in body. But now, for the first time since Centeral America, Jack Twist had the need, the desire, and ability to reach out to society around him, to make friends.”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“Intellect, courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy—each of those qualities was as important to the human species as all the others,”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“Taciturnity sometimes could be a sign of a healthy ego that did not require constant gratification,”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you.”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“We long to find the splendid light that will cast a revelatory beam upon the meaning of the human dream. —The Book of Counted Sorrows”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. —Mark Twain”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“A terrible darkness has fallen upon us, but we must not surrender to it. We shall lift lamps of courage and find our way through to the morning. —Anonymous member of the French Resistance (1943)”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“When you couldn’t understand a situation, that usually meant you were missing something important. If you were missing something important, that meant you had a blind side. If you had a blind side, you could get your ass shot off when you were least expecting it.”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“most respected of living American artists,”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“Courage, love, friendship, Compassion, and empathy Lift us above the simple beasts And define humanity. – The Book of Counted Sorrows”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“human beings were not meant for solitude, lonely struggles; the very essence of the species was its need to give and receive friendship, affection, love.”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These cold questions echo and resound Through each day, each lonely night. We long to find the splendid light That will cast a revelatory beam Upon the meaning of the human dream. – The Book of Counted Sorrows”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

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― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“out, that’ll be like lighting the fuse. He knows no one can control”
― Dean Koontz, STRANGERS

“Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of Christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“herbs”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers

“sibilant”
― Dean Koontz, Strangers