The Forbidden Door Quotes

“Life is finding people you love and then losing them, sometimes after sixty years, sometimes after a few months or even a week, all the loss meant to keep you humble and remind you that your life is likewise stamped with an expiration date, so that you’ll use your days to the best of your ability, in the service of what is good.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“THE HIGH MOON A SILVER coin in the sequined purse of the night,”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Her grief was now doubled by his grief. She wondered how many heartbreaks a child so young could endure.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“In time, that festival of flesh is going to inspire a butt-horn serenade, and Jergen lacks a gas mask.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Sir, with all due respect, if you’ve just got to be in Killeen inside an hour, may I suggest you best stick a propeller in your ass and fart your way there.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Cornell knew that most people thought he was strange, even creepy. He'd been diagnosed with Asperger's disorder and various forms of autism. Maybe all those diagnoses were correct or maybe none were. His IQ was very high, and he'd made a lot of money while sitting alone in a room, developing apps that had proved enormously popular. When he was rich, no less than when he'd been poor, people thought he was strange, even creepy.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“A passion to rule, to tear down society and remake it more to their liking, a passion to silence all dissent and to make a world in which they wouldn’t have to hear an opinion at variance with their own. The passion for destruction always has more appeal to more people than does the passion to preserve and build. It’s an ugly truth of human nature. Passion, sir. The kind of raw passion that breeds ruthlessness”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“...and a snake of pale smoke uncoils like a cobra swaying to a flute.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Beware actors who can be anyone they wish to be; they are in fact no one at all, cold and empty, though they can be pied pipers to the masses.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“quivery thermals rising from the blacktop, like spirits liberated from graves beneath the pavement…”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Always before, Cornell had liked everything to be just the same today as it had been yesterday, and he had hoped tomorrow would be the same as today. Now everything was different, and he wanted tomorrow to be the same kind of different as today. On the other hand, if things could get so different from one day to the next, they could get different all over again and maybe the next time in not such a nice way.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Get real, my friend. If this is a crime scene and if the girl is attractive, her looks could have something to do with why she was murdered. A former husband. A jealous boyfriend.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Condition White, one of the four Cooper Color Codes describing levels of situational awareness”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“every closet door a potential lid to a lethal jack-in-the-box.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Judge Sheila Draper-Cruxton.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“This is a world of lies and always has been. We live in a time of even greater deceptions than in centuries past. So much of what we're told, what we see on TV, what we read in the newspapers or on the Internet, is invented to conceal the truth, protect the wicked, increase the power of those who already have more power than all the kings of history combined."

"I don't disagree," she said. "But what does that have to do with the price of a pistol?”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“The world is as ephemeral as a dream, each moment of the day but a mirage within an infinite honeycomb of mirages. The only thing about himself that he can say exists, with certainty, is his mind wrapped in the illusion of his physical body. He thinks; therefore, he is. But his body, his life, his country, and his world are all illusion.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Beware actors who can become anyone they wish to be; they are in fact no one at all, cold and empty, though they can be pied pipers to the masses.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“Bad people were often more clever than good people because they spent their entire rotten lives scheming and conniving.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door

“She was always watching them when they didn’t realize it, not watching them from a hiding place or anything creepy like that, just studying them to figure out how they were who they were. By watching them, she’d learned who she wanted to be and how to become that person, though she wasn’t that person yet; there was a long road ahead.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forbidden Door