Ricochet Joe Quotes

“Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn’t leave the enduring scars of profound grief.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“Whatever task you’ve taken, whatever fight you’re facing, you must bring to it nothing less than everything you’ve got, or otherwise you’ll fail for sure and always wonder what might have been if only you had given your all.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“When he looked away from her, the bottles were gone and with them all the vertical and horizontal currents of water and brandy that represented the omnidirectional tides of time’s ocean.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“All time—past, present, future—existed in the instant the universe came into being, but also in all the infinite number of universes that exist alongside one another. Time is one big ocean encompassing all those possible worlds. And so for those who truly understand time and the uses to which it can be put, not only the past and future can be visited, but so can universes floating far, far away from theirs in the sea of time.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“She was so nice to look at that Joe twice stabbed his left foot when he thought he was spearing a bit of litter, though neither wound was serious enough to require a tetanus shot.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“Dedicated Practitioners of Evil,” or DPEs.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“Little City wasn’t really a city. It was more like a big town, with twenty thousand citizens. There had been fewer than four hundred residents when Thomas Little founded the place, but he had been a man with big dreams and no regard for the truth.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“What’s wrong with writers?” he asked. “A lot of them hate the world and want to change it, build Utopia.” “I don’t.” “Good. Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“His father loved Joe to the extent that he was capable, but being a low-key individual not given to intense emotions, he expressed his love more often with pats on the head and affectionate smiles than with kisses and extravagant proclamations of devotion.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“Our illusion is that we travel through life on a calculated and straight trajectory, from the past through present into future, on a journey to understanding, truth, reward. But by Brownian movement we progress, sent angling off this way and that by the impact of everyone we meet and every event that we cannot foresee.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“we know we’re finally getting a little wisdom when we’re able to see that even loss can be beautiful if it makes us love more the things we haven’t lost.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“There are some scientists who believe that the universe is in fact an infinite number of parallel universes, and that perhaps we never die. If the forward motion of time is only our perception and not true, then perhaps when we appear to age and die, we actually continue in a parallel universe . . . and so on and on.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“Men are often made stupid by love.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“But the heart is deceitful above all things.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“Watches and clocks measure our perception of time, not time itself.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“How is always less important than why.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“The dimly lighted hallway smelled as if pastrami sandwiches had recently been heated in a microwave.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“Here in Little City,” she said, “lives a traveler who didn’t come from this world. Or perhaps it came from a million years in the future. Or from outside of time, from before this universe or any other was created. Either I am thought incapable of understanding the fine details—or I am thought to be safer not knowing them. Or maybe knowing them would destroy my sanity. In any case, I call this traveler Parasite, because its real name is nothing I can pronounce. This vile thing invades a human host and lives secretly among us, and by our definition, it is pure evil. It infects others, not with its substance but with a controlling poison, and those it infects eventually infect still others. It is a parasite but it’s also a puppeteer, and it pulls a million strings, ten times a million, all over the world.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“spooky effects at a distance.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“the one who appeared to have been stitched together from several murderers and brought to life by a lightning bolt.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“I just want to tell good stories. Or write advertising copy.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“even loss could be beautiful if it made you love more the things that hadn’t been lost.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“She found a rich guy who didn’t want kids as much as she didn’t, and they went off and didn’t have any together.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“we’re finally getting a little wisdom when we’re able to see that even loss can be beautiful if it makes us love more the things we haven’t lost.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“he expressed his love more often with pats on the head and affectionate smiles than with kisses and extravagant proclamations of devotion.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe

“We think time flows from the past through the present to the future. But time doesn’t flow. All time—past, present, future—existed in the first instant of the universe’s creation. Textbooks will tell you so. Time is not a river. It’s an invisible ocean encompassing the universe, with tides that run in all directions simultaneously.”
― Dean Koontz, Ricochet Joe