The Neighbor Quotes

“One of the good things about being twelve or younger is that you tend to believe that you’ll live forever.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“He held the sandwich in his right hand, a cigarette in his left, alternating between the two. When witness to this, I always hoped that in error he would take a bite of the cigarette or attempt to smoke the sandwich, but he never became confused.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time, when we’re plodding along from breakfast to bedtime in a reassuringly familiar routine.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“She was my sister, beloved, who had stayed in my room around the clock when I’d been eight and suffered with a case of the flu that nearly killed me. She was my sister, whose clarinet playing inspired me to find the music in me, to settle on the saxophone, which had fast become the key to my identity. I loved her as I loved no one else, as no others had allowed me to love them, and if I were to kill her under the influence of some malign spirit, I might as well then kill myself.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“instrument for nothing, and she had wanted to learn to play it largely because”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“him aloof or cold, only shy and on occasion melancholy. Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow. Amalia was somewhat distressed. “Somebody should have cleaned up these dishes and emptied the refrigerator before things in it spoiled. Leaving it like this … it’s just wrong.” I shrugged. “Maybe no one cared about him.” My sister seemed to care about everyone, even making excuses for our parents at their”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“Amalia insisted he wasn’t cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“think much about girls. Considering my long, pale face and hound-dog eyes behind black-rimmed glasses with thick lenses, maybe I already knew that even through adulthood”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“Rupert Clockenwall seemed to have been too bland a soul to come back from the grave on a haunt.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I’m an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“when we’re plodding along from breakfast to bedtime in a reassuringly familiar routine.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“Like his more engaging story, mine suggests that the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time,”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“Axe is musicians’ slang for instrument,”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

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― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor

“Chesterfield cigarettes were to him what the Eucharist is to devout Catholics. Amalia insisted he wasn’t cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated.”
― Dean Koontz, The Neighbor