The Whispering Room Quotes

“Taking refuge in the hopeless nature of anything was just a form of cowardice.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Dogs in general, not just good Dixie, sometimes regarded their humans with an expression of loving concern colored with tender pity, as if they knew not merely people’s most private fears and hopes, but also the very truth of life and the fate of all things, as though they wished that they could speak in order to give comfort by sharing what they knew.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“I guess I need to get my paranoid on.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Over the centuries, the Miriams and the Bernies and the millions like them were the fonts of free and civil societies, which was why the likes of D. J. Michael so despised them and yearned to oppress them; freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Once truth was known, it could not be unlearned, nor could it be forgotten, but lay always in the heart, a darkness for which all the years ahead would be spent seeking whatever light could be found to compensate.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“The trouble with the what-if game was that once you began to play it, you couldn’t just quit whenever you wanted. From one what-if grew another.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“You could know the science of a thing and still find the phenomenon mysterious and mystical, and feel small and vulnerable in the face of it.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Haven’t you noticed, insanity is the new normal?”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“airport”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“soon be able to tell him where she was when she”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“They were at a time in history that allowed no conscientious objectors, when every man, woman, and child was either a combatant or a victim.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Those citizens employed at the resort had been induced to submit to injections sixteen months earlier, when their employer offered free flu vaccinations and implied that anyone refusing wouldn’t be paid for work missed due to influenza. Because these inoculations were also provided free of charge to family members of employees and anyone else in town who wanted them, within two weeks 386 of the 604 residents were programmed with nanomachine command mechanisms. During the next two months, those who hadn’t been converted in the first wave were, at the most opportune moments, sedated without their knowledge by family members; while sleeping, they were brought into the fellowship of the adjusted. Only seven had a chance to resist, and only two had of necessity been killed.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Intuition was the highest form of knowledge, antecedent to all teaching, not reliant on reasoning.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“She wondered if she might be alone in this disquiet or whether these days other people experienced it as well, and she suspected that all of them knew the feeling whether they would admit it or not.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“disquietude”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“but what was needed in this life was not often what was given. And wishing for anything seemed to summon the demons that would prevent the fulfillment of the wish.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Depression was for those despairing people who decided that life had no meaning, but Jane knew that, instead, life had too much meaning to process, that every minute of life was rich with meaning, crammed full to the top with meaning. Some of its meaning was as clear and poignant as a needle in the neck, some of such a joyful nature that your buoyant heart seemed capable of lifting you high among the birds, although much of life’s most profound meaning lay beyond her understanding, latent and mysterious.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Nueske’s bacon, the best bacon in the world, which fried up thin and crisp and flavorful.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“They said that man proposes, God disposes;”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“and”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“A civil society could not endure without it. When the rule of law was diminished, the strong preyed on the weak. If the rule of law collapsed, every barbarism would ensue, and the streets would run with blood in such volume that all apocalyptic biblical plagues and disaster-movie horrors would seem by comparison to be the musings of naïve children. He had long watched with concern as those who were corrupt became bolder in their thieving and lust for power, as corruption spread to institutions once immune to it.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“what”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Instead, he functioned well on four or five hours, with an occasional six. Sleep was rest to him, yes, but it also felt like a taste of death, waking to discover that, for hours, the world had gone on just fine without him, as one day it would go on forever.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“She squeezed off three shots, targeting the kneeling man, giving him no chance because he was not a man but a kneeling thing that had once been a man, and he collapsed in a judgment of blood like a penitent whose confession was rejected by some angry god.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“...from an age of hope, when honor and a sense that right would always win suffused the land.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“By all those tells, he wrote his anxiety and his guilt as clearly as if he had composed his confession on a blackboard with a stick of chalk.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Even though the foolishness of its elites had diminished its prospects and though many among its people lived with the foreboding of terrible loss and tragic withering, this was still a big country in terms of territory and native spirit, so that to drive it was both an exhausting and encouraging experience.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room

“Laws the seemed to be about making the Internet more fair, making it more democratic and open...Woven through them are levers with which government agencies can control what's seen.”
― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room