The Big Dark Sky Quotes

“I read to keep from being sad.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Truths we don’t want to hear always make the teller ugly to us.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“His love life was about as romantic as an arm-wrestling contest. He was self-aware enough to know that he—not the women—was the problem, but he didn’t know how to fix himself.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“An abundance of pessimists might bend reality to Armageddon just by expecting”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“As adults, we’re not much less helpless than children, Wyatt thought, though we can hold a job and pay our way. The bogeyman is still there, the thing under the bed, the worse thing in the bedroom closet at night, the even worse thing in the cellar, in the attic, except now it has names like Cancer and Stroke and Aneurysm and the Unknown. You pretend you’re in control, that you’ve put behind you the helplessness you endured in childhood. Then shit happens, and you come to a moment like this, unable to avoid facing the truth that your control over your life is limited. You’re not the absolute master of your fate. In reluctant recognition of your helplessness, functioning on the edge of panic, you look haunted, frantic, as fragile as crystal—the way Joanna looks now, as no doubt so do I.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“When people think their lives are without meaning, they’ll seek meaning even from the creepiest of charlatans.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Remember Carl Jung. Werner Heisenberg. The tenuous nature of reality on the quantum level. Attitude, attitude, attitude!”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. —Carl Gustav Jung PART 1 RUSTLING WILLOWS Incredible coincidences without apparent cause are called synchronicities.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“On the quantum level, reality is spookily fragile and can be manipulated. By whom? By us. —Ganesh”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“The famous British actress Beatrice Lillie was once onstage in Ontario, Canada, performing in Noël Coward’s This Year of Grace, the entire cast lined up to one side of her. She was singing “Britannia Rules the Waves,” when she mistakenly began to sing the second verse twice, before moving to the third. She realized what she was doing but had to carry forward with it. The cast froze in place instead of moving to center stage—which”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Sorrow might have grown into depression if he had been a less positive person, but his lifelong experience was that every spell of darkness lifted soon enough, so that light came again into the soul and mind and heart, which were not made for darkness.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Perhaps everyone entertained a story of his or her childhood that to one extent or another was a colorful reimagining of what had actually occurred, smoothing away the bigger fears and errors with a plaster of nostalgia. If so, they could be content with an alternate history because they believed it to be the complete and sparkling truth.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“every spell of darkness lifted soon enough, so that light came again into the soul and mind and heart, which were not made for darkness.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Carl Jung. He theorized, among other things, that mind and matter are entwined, that as individuals and as a community of minds, we can affect reality, even unconsciously create it.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Nature had given him a kind face and a sweet smile—but it was wise to remember that oleander bushes produced beautiful flowers so poisonous they were as lethal as a bullet in the head.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Her sales increased novel by novel in an age of high-tech barbarism when it seemed that books might fade entirely from fashion and that vast fields of information, digitized but rarely accessed, would soon become graveyards of once essential knowledge.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“When people think their lives are without meaning, they’ll seek meaning even from the creepiest of charlatans”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn’t understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Nevertheless, he didn’t take offense at being an object of suspicion, because such scrutiny was a wise protocol. Ganesh Patel rarely took offense at anything; to do so was a waste of emotional energy. Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn’t understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“the nature of the world when you dared to see it clearly: a place of mystery in which extraordinary coincidences were more common than they seemed.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“At last her mother looks up from the book and smiles and says, “I read to keep from being sad.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“meaningful coincidences reveal that our collective consciousness creates reality at least to some degree.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“life fully lived required enduring risks, taking chances, facing down all fears, and opening her heart.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“this land where freedom made possible the unlimited use of the human imagination and facilitated technology advanced enough to save the world when the world needed saving”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“How often in the past century and a half have we seen the ruling class, many highly intelligent, lead their people in a foolish pursuit of one utopia or another, only to bring them to ruin and despair?”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“seemed that books might fade entirely from fashion and that vast fields of information, digitized but rarely accessed, would soon become graveyards of once essential knowledge.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“The sky fell, and the wind blew, and the rain rushed, and the trees shook,”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“Perhaps this wasn’t precisely what had been said back in the day, but instead the essence of it translated through fallible memory.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“He didn’t see them, but he heard them pitter-pattering across the beams and flooring in the attic. The place had been empty for some months, and the rodents had taken up residence. They”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky

“She believed in pursuing the truth of things rather than living in the pleasure of ignorance, and never before had a mystery as abstruse as this challenged her.”
― Dean Koontz, The Big Dark Sky