Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not Quotes

“Who in all the world ever stands up to really outrageous evil? Not many. Most people satisfy themselves by strongly opposing little evils, like hurtful words and unpopular ideas and gluttony, where the risk of angering violent people is low.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“the world is a library and every person in it is an entire shelf of stories.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“After half a minute of consideration, Rainer says, “I’ll still want my collection of comic novels. Sometimes I think what prevents the darkness from coming down on us even faster is laughing at it. Evil withers at mockery, don’t you think?”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“is willing to render the words in a Romanized translation—yeled shel HaShem. That declaration is many things to Rainer—a remembrance of a friend now gone far away; an expression of hope; an assertion that he, too, is no one’s property; a reminder to have courage even in the face of horror—though what it simply says is child of God.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“If this is a lonely life, it is also colorful.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“Family is the glue that holds the world together, even when it’s not a family of one blood.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“those who believe in nothing for long enough will eventually believe in anything.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“When they believe your lie is the truth, when they fail to see that the freedom you claim to champion is in fact slavery disguised, they’ll live by whatever rules you imply without realizing they’re being obedient.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“She has long thought that the best thing about being rich—not that she ever will be—but the best thing is having all the books you want, with no concern about the cost.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“People like her are everywhere these days. When they believe your lie is the truth, when they fail to see that the freedom you claim to champion is in fact slavery disguised, they’ll live by whatever rules you imply without realizing they’re being obedient.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“A lot of people think what happens is just chance, good luck or bad, that it always turns sooner or later, that we don’t make the world what we want it to be. But that’s plain wrong. We’re made to make our world,”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“It is the history of evil people that they first seek to destroy innocence because innocence is beauty, and then seek to destroy what is merely beautiful because it reminds them of the innocence they have forsaken.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“grossly evil people or very stupid people—or evil stupid people—are in charge of almost everything, and the good smart people are afraid to oppose them because the evil people are vicious and the stupid people are too clueless to see where all this is going, and the people who are both evil and stupid, well, they’re the worst of all.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“Who in all the world ever stands up to really outrageous evil?”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“cloth,”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“the turn of events beggars belief and crowns the night with meaning”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not

“He hopes that moment will not come too soon, because he has many novels yet to read and very much wants to reread all of Donald Westlake’s work.”
― Dean Koontz, Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not