Kaleidoscope Quotes

“The Christmas tree twinkles, and miniature angel dogs hover among the branches”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“There’s terrible darkness in the human heart,” the girl says, “and good people need to have the courage to stand against it, or there won’t be a safe place anywhere.”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“Someone once told him, someone erased from his memory, that many people lead hard lives, lonely and unappreciated, and that an unexpected, large gratuity makes them feel special and helps them to hold fast to a belief in the existence of kindness and meaning in a world that seems to be growing ever more barbarous and meaningless year by year.”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“Tenderness is false mercy. It’s easy, emotion without reason. Mercy takes strength, courage, love. Tender-hearted folks will never be there for you when the dark is darkest.”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“Can a nation surrender its freedom and a civil society to a rabid ideology in just two short years?”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“Fruit has been provided in the past, but not flowers. The cards attached to the arrangements offer no message, only the same name: A. Diamonds. That would be Ace of Diamonds, the handler and mission planner whom he has never seen, to whom he has never spoken.”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“Faith in an ideology is faith in nothing,”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“That’s the tragedy of prophets. They never look like what they are, so no one believes them until it’s too late.”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“Those with eyes to see, let them see,” Nameless says. “Those with ears to hear, let them hear.”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“Only two years? Can a nation surrender its freedom and a civil society to a rabid ideology in just two short years?”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“many people lead hard lives, lonely and unappreciated, and that an unexpected, large gratuity makes them feel special and helps them to hold fast to a belief in the existence of kindness and meaning in a world that seems to be growing ever more barbarous and meaningless year by year.”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope

“There’s terrible darkness in the human heart,” the girl says, “and good people need to have the courage to stand against it, or there won’t”
― Dean Koontz, Kaleidoscope