The Silent Corner Quotes

“If you let the news spoil your appetite, there wouldn’t be a day you could eat.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“People should matter more than ideas.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“... life is complicated, but if it wasn't complicated, it would be a roller coaster on a flat track. Wouldn't be a ride worth taking. And, yeah, we never fully know ourselves, but that means we're mysterious enough to interest one another. And if we fully knew ourselves in this world, what reason would we have to still be here ?”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Ideas shouldn’t matter more than people.” He”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“It’s a beautiful, terrible, world, isn’t it?”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“the darkest desire of humankind—to hold absolute power, to control, to command obedience, to eliminate all voices of disagreement and dissent—had found its full expression.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw. He”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“the more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot.” In”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“what might have looked like courage proved to be a deficit of common sense and an excess of self-importance, too strong a faith in his genius and superiority—not courage at all, but the rash actions of an ordinary narcissist incapable of imagining that he might fail.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“In this brave new digital world, reality is plastic, and your identity is whatever you wish it to be. As is your future: Wish it, build it, live it.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Why do some people—so many—need to control others, tell them what to do, use them if they can, destroy those who won’t be used?” She sensed that the question wasn’t rhetorical, that he cared what she would say. “Why Hitler, why Stalin, why Emory Wayne Udell? I don’t know. Demonic influence or just miswired brains? In the end, does it matter which? Maybe what matters is that some of us aren’t broken by it all, that we can take it to the Emory Udells and the William Overtons and the Bertold Shennecks, take it to them and stop them before they can do everything they dream about.” North”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“But in this new world, you could seldom afford to do what you’d rather do instead of what you must.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“The free kitchen, after-school programs, keeping porn out of libraries—all that needs done, but it’s dealing with the aftermath, not with the causes. I’m in the mood to deal with a cause.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Lively conversation would have helped her remain alert, but Trahern was not a raconteur with a trove of sparkling anecdotes.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“She was keenly aware that a charge of bigotry was a popular technique used to shut up an adversary who was no more a bigot than she was a blue giraffe, to make her doubt herself and misdirect her, while implying the moral superiority of the accuser.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Is your opinion supposed to matter to me? I don’t even know your name. You have a name, or are you just some anonymous gremlin who spins into people’s lives and wrecks their mood?”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Go to Hell.” “I’m sure you can give me good directions.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object too long at rest tends to have her throat slit.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Yeah, life is complicated, but if it wasn’t complicated, it would be a roller coaster on a flat track. Wouldn’t be a ride worth taking. And, yeah, we never fully know ourselves, but that means we’re mysterious enough to interest one another. And if we fully knew ourselves in this world, what reason would we have to still be here?”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“You’re a scary woman, the way you know a man’s mind.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust wore the same face.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“No matter how brilliant the man, the mate who is twined with him in the pursuit of dominion brings to the enterprise a female insight and cunning that must not be undervalued.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Genuine as it might be," Moshe said, "too much sympathy can start to seem like pity, which only makes the grief more depressing.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“But the rebellious primitive that lived in the back of every human brain was drawn to what the forebrain deemed too dark for civilized consideration, and the eye sometimes turned traitor.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“deliquescing”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Ficus nitida”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Suddenly it was possible to see Trahern’s clothes as a costume, his unruly hair and Moses beard as part of a crafted image.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“He looked like the wrathful Old Testament God getting ready to throw down some well-deserved punishment on the earth. “This might be hard to understand, lady. But in war, you do the right thing, whatever it takes, and if you come out alive, you know how easy you could have screwed up, so bragging on it is dead-solid wrong. Only assholes do that. I don’t Facebook. Don’t tweet. Don’t Instagram. I don’t talk about the past, and it pisses me off that you remembered that old DDT thing and were able to find that newspaper photo.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“He decided that what offended Ancel Hawk was not that his own veracity had been challenged but that Silverman had seemed to question his daughter-in-law’s story. Doubt me and we can still talk, the rancher was saying, but doubt Jane and I’m done with you.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“Stunned to hear this paranoid conspiracy theory coming from the no-nonsense rancher,”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner