The Key to Midnight Quotes

“He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.”
― Dean Koontz, The Key to Midnight

“If you let a man make his mark in a capitalistic society, if you let him achieve all that he wants in that society, then after a while he feels grateful toward that system,”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“When the bright-winged bird sees a fallen cherry on the ground beneath a tree,’ Joanna said, ‘it seizes the fruit and flies, full of joy, and deals with the pit later.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, chronologically, and now even geographically”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“The Demolished Man.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“science fiction”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“Tension, apprehension, and dissension”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“Ahhhhh,’ Freud said softly and appreciatively from his brass cage. ‘Ahhhhh.’ The vanes of the highly lacquered pine shutters had previously glimmered with a liquid amber luminescence, but now they faded into gloom. Only the tapestry remained clearly revealed – and in the altered light it was transformed. It appeared to be mysteriously illuminated from within, and in spite of the stylized and idealized nature of the scene, it acquired such a strong aspect of reality that it almost seemed to be a view from a window. ‘Look”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“mizutaki,”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“preternatural”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“penultimate”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“verisimilitude”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“Honorable detective should know that repetition of a truth does not make it any less true, and resistance to the truth can never be more than a brief folly.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“The Japanese had a highly developed sense of propriety, a complex system of social graces, and a very rigid set of standards concerning the conduct of personal relationships.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“In the past ten years there had been truly amazing advances in those areas of research – psychopharmacology, biochemistry, psychosurgery, clinical psychology – that directly and indirectly contributed to the less reputable but nonetheless hotly pursued science of mind control.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“stigmata.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“Hideyoshi’s”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“The first buildings had been erected in 1603, to serve as the Kyoto residence of the first shogun of the honorable Tokugawa family,”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“– calm and sane. The key words of the Japanese experience, at least for most of its philosophical history, are “serenity” and “simplicity”.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“pedantically”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“Matsuri”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“Money’s neither dirty nor noble. It’s a neutral substance, an inevitable part of civilization.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“o-zashiki”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“Lisa Chelgrin.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“Joanna Rand”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“truth does not make it any less true, and resistance to the truth can never be more than a brief folly.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“She ran past richly carved transoms, past intricate scenes painted on sliding doors, footsteps echoing off the coffered ceilings, ran past a surprised guard who called to her, dashed through an exit into cool November air, started across the big courtyard, heard a”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“oie rotie aux pruneaux”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“Nazis and communists have a lot in common,’ Alex said. ‘They want the same thing – absolute control, unqualified power.”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT

“of”
― Dean Koontz, THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT