Odd Thomas Quotes

“Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It’s about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse trouble.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died.
Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished.
What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“The depth of your wardrobe dazzles the mind. Ralph Lauren weeps.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I love you more than life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I curse the night I let your idiot father squirt you into me.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“In time she said, "I love you, Oddie."
My voice was thick when I replied. "I love you more than life.”
"We'll be okay," she said.
"We are okay."
"We're weird and screwed-up, but we're okay," she agreed.
"If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would melt under my tongue. But you-you're cool.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I’d probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn’t simplify my life in every area where I do have some control.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I sure hope she’s wrong, because one of the implications of her cosmology is that the many terrors we know here are an inoculation against worse in the world to come.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by suicidal types who sooner or later kill themselves with alcohol or drugs, or shotguns, Professor Takuda was a remarkably cheerful man.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“He’ll also cut you some slack if you’re astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels...”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Dreams that are as rich as cream while they unfold are skim milk when we wake, and in time they wash out of our minds, leaving as little residue as water filtered through cheesecloth.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“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, Odd Thomas

“Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Puppies are adorable. I'm not a puppy.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I am wary of any gun, anywhere, anytime—except when it’s in Stormy’s hand. She could sit with her finger on the detonation button of a nuclear weapon, and I would feel safe enough to nap.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“In treacherous currents, she is kept steady by a moral anchor the size of a ship.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“My point of view is this: If you like root-beer floats so much, have one on Monday, another on Tuesday, and a third on Wednesday.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I tend to believe in the traditional architecture of life and the afterlife. This world is a journey of discovery and purification. The next world consists of two destinations: One is a palace for the spirit and an endless kingdom of wonder, while the other is cold and dark and unthinkable.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said "Batter up,"I didn't argue that I wasn't ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer to Mickey Mantle.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I am told not to let the tone of this narrative become too dark. A certain 400-pound muse will park his 150-pound ass on me by way of editorial comment, and there is always the threat of his urine-filled cat.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas