Top 100 Odd Thomas Quotes
#1. He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way." - Odd Thomas - "Odd Hours by Dean Koontz pg 239 chapter 30
Dean Koontz
#2. Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas)
Dean Koontz
#3. If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz
#4. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.
Dean Koontz
#5. If my gift has a giver other than indifferent Nature and comes with a purpose, then the angel in charge of the Odd Thomas account must be operating on a shoestring budget.
Dean Koontz
#6. I didn't have a cell phone because I never needed to play video games or surf the Net, or exchange nude photos with a congressman. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 137 chapter 19
Dean Koontz
#7. Even with the intention to be quiet, human beings seldom can restrain from comment or at least grumbled cursing; we are the chattering species, as much as we are anything else - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 56 chapter 7
Dean Koontz
#8. Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz
#9. The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.
Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz
#10. The flesh on the nape of my neck did the crawly thing that it does so well. Some people say this is God's warning that the devil is near, but I've noticed I also experience it when someone serves me Brussels sprouts.
Dean Koontz
#11. Regardless of how hard the winds of chance might blow or how heavy the weight of experience might become, Stormy always stays on her feet ...
Dean Koontz
#12. So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe - all its matter and forms of energy - arise out of thought.
Dean Koontz
#13. Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.
Dean Koontz
#14. I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.
Dean Koontz
#15. A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.
Dean Koontz
#16. When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.
Dean Koontz
#18. These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.
Dean Koontz
#19. She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.
Dean Koontz
#20. Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved ...
Dean Koontz
#21. He looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him ...
Dean Koontz
#22. I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.
Dean Koontz
#23. Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.
Dean Koontz
#24. Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.
Dean Koontz
#25. Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.
Dean Koontz
#26. I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.
Dean Koontz
#27. Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.
Dean Koontz
#28. Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience ...
Dean Koontz
#29. Delayed gratification."
"Yeah, it makes things sweeter."
"Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour.
Dean Koontz
#30. Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are ...
Dean Koontz
#31. Sometimes, something meaningless occurs, somewhere with meaning.
F. Thomas Vincent
#32. Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.
Dean Koontz
#33. In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.
Dean Koontz
#34. You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.
Dean Koontz
#35. Evil never dies. It just changes faces.
Dean Koontz
#36. Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever - no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all.
Dean Koontz
#37. Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.
Dean Koontz
#38. Because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.
Dean Koontz
#39. Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else.
Dean Koontz
#40. I get an odd, intimate, and amusing sensation from having him sit on my foot and warm it with the blood-heat of his body. A pervasive feeling of sympathy and good cheer fills me, as almost invariably when in his company and looking at things from his angle.
Thomas Mann
#41. All death matters."
"Only to the living.
Dean Koontz
#42. Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.
Dean Koontz
#43. There will be something very wrong with any place we go.
Dean Koontz
#44. Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.
Dean Koontz
#45. This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose
Dean Koontz
#46. The more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.
Dean Koontz
#47. Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there's a safe harbor past the terror.
Dean Koontz
#48. Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.
Dean Koontz
#49. Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they got is strut, they ain't got the guts to back up the brag
Dean Koontz
#50. Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it.
Dean Koontz
#51. If we rely upon the tao with which we're born, we always know what is the right thing to do in any situation, the good thing not for our bank accounts or for ourselves, but for our souls. We are tempted from the tao by self-interest, by base emotions and passions.
Dean Koontz
#52. An age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not ...
Dean Koontz
#53. It was odd
unsettling, actually
how love magnified everything. Small joy was turned into overwhelming happiness; worry became heart-stopping fear. It was as if love became a magnifying glass turned on the heart, taking whatever was there and making it appear many times its normal size.
Michael Thomas Ford
#54. A part of me knew ... from the moment I saw her;
her death would have been one wound too many that day.
Dean Koontz
#55. Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.
Dean Koontz
#57. Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved.
Dean Koontz
#58. Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.
Dean Koontz
#59. More likely, they would just cease to exist."
"That's death."
"No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.
Dean Koontz
#60. And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.
Dean Koontz
#61. In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.
Dean Koontz
#62. Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires ...
Dean Koontz
#63. But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.
Dean Koontz
#64. Everything barbarians do is nothing, no matter how loudly they insist it's something.
Dean Koontz
#65. You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!
Eric Thomas
#66. I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.
Dean Koontz
#67. Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside ...
Dean Koontz
#68. From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be.
Dean Koontz
#69. Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.
Dean Koontz
#70. She shrugged. "He visits me in my dreams, which are quite real and have become more frequent." How odd it was to hear her say that, as she always forbade me to talk about the supernatural, and ghosts in particular, even when I was a child and I believed I saw spirits or had premonitions.
Lynn Thomas
#71. Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.
Dean Koontz
#72. Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.
Dean Koontz
#73. On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.
Dean Koontz
#74. Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.
Dean Koontz
#75. She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.
Dean Koontz
#76. Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool
Dean Koontz
#77. Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.
Dean Koontz
#78. Be afraid in proportion to the threat.
Dean Koontz
#79. It had sure felt like death, but then everything since had felt like life.
Dean Koontz
#80. It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting."
"Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card
Dean Koontz
#81. Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life.
Dean Koontz
#82. Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.
Dean Koontz
#83. Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it ...
Dean Koontz
#84. To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.
Dean Koontz
#85. What we fear too much we often bring to pass.
Dean Koontz
#86. So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: I guess I'll find out.
Dean Koontz
#87. If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.
Dean Koontz
#88. I feel like I've been sliding all day.
Dean Koontz
#89. Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.
Dean Koontz
#90. Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
Dean Koontz
#91. His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.
Dean Koontz
#92. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?
Dean Koontz
#93. Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
Dean Koontz
#94. Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love.
Dean Koontz
#95. I could live with one butt cheek - just sit at a slant for the rest of my life, not worry about how baggy the seat of my blue jeans looked, get used to the nickname Halfass - but I couldn't live with my brains blown out.
Dean Koontz
#96. Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
Dean Koontz
#97. Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.
Dean Koontz
#98. The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Thomas Browne
#99. Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
Thomas Harris
#100. Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.
Dean Koontz
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