Photographing the Dead Quotes

“Of all wildlife, mule deer fawns are the safest newborns, ’cause during their entire first year, they don’t produce a scent by which a predator might find them.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Under her restlessness and licentious pose is a repressed wholesomeness that will always make her regret devaluing herself, which, even in these strange times, he believes is true of more people than not. “Veronica,” she says, referring to another waitress, “says you look dangerous. But the girl has zero spirit of adventure.” “Good for her,” Nameless says. “Girls who”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Palmer’s true identity is Death, Death incarnate, and Death has no illusions.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“In fact, Palmer has no friends. No one does. Friendship is an illusion, like love and compassion.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Palmer Oxenwald is sitting at the bar.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“encounter on Aguereberry Point, Oxenwald is on the move again after less than an hour.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“He suspects that he may have volunteered for this.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“He usually carries no ID, because even a forged document gives authorities something with which to begin”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“He has never met Ace. They have never spoken. He doesn’t know if Ace is a man or a woman—or something stranger than either.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“train, burdened by no luggage whatsoever, he arrives in San Bernardino, California, on a warm Tuesday night in June,”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Sitting in the driver’s seat, he opens the console, where he finds a California driver’s license for Kenton Paul Mallory.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“When he has completed the task before him, he will enter a simple code that will return the phone to its factory setting,”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“He’s all right with being nameless.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“He is someone’s tool, taking direction, but he never”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Mia and Kara Benton are twenty-six, fraternal twins, therefore not identical,”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“she’s got”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Sometimes a girl who doesn’t like guns is nevertheless obliged to carry one”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“eidetic memory”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Everyone ends in me,” Palmer says, “but I have no end.” He will prove it now, by dawn if not before, as he’s proved it so often in the past.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“The back door hinges are well oiled. Without a sound, he eases into the kitchen, which is illuminated dimly by digital clocks on the oven and the microwave.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Well I’m not in Adams and Steichen’s league. I like to think my work is art, but few galleries represent photos anymore, not like there were when those guys were hot. The mystique is gone, you know. Every Joe and Jane with a smartphone thinks they’re a genius photographer.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“eidetic”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Justice can be politicized, but truth cannot; truth is what it is.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Under her restlessness and licentious pose is a repressed wholesomeness that will always make her regret devaluing herself, which, even in these strange times, he believes is true of more people than not.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“He takes dinner in a likable-looking roadhouse. Because he’s off duty for the night, he has an extra-dry martini with a twist before dinner, another with an ahi appetizer, plus a glass of cabernet sauvignon with his steak.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Sometimes a girl who doesn’t like guns is nevertheless obliged to carry one if she’s got any common sense at all.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Friendship is an illusion.. Like love and compassion!”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“Justice is often in the eye of the beholder; what is justice to some can look like injustice to others. Justice can be politicized, but truth cannot; truth is what it is.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“The water is long gone, and this is another isolated, lonely location where naive people, who feel safe in the arms of Mother Nature, can be surprised by a sociopath spawned by decadent civilization but entirely at home in the barrens and the wilds.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead

“During the one minute of wakefulness after his head meets the pillow, he wonders not who he once was, not why that life is behind him and beyond recapture, not what organization finances him and crafts his missions. He wonders only how he was made into what he has become. Strange science must be involved, which intrigues him. Sleep.”
― Dean Koontz, Photographing the Dead