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Frases célebres de Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz: Frases en inglés
Fuente: One Door Away from Heaven (2001), chapter 73, pp. 604, 605
Contexto: What will you find behind the door that is one door away from Heaven? […] If your heart is closed, then you will find behind that door nothing to light your way. But if your heart is open, you will find behind that door people who, like you, are searching, and you will find the right door together with them. None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
Fuente: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Part I, Chapter 1.2, the mysterious stranger's words to Bob Shane
Lightning (1988)
“Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.”
Seize the Night (1999)
“Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.”
Fuente: Life Expectancy (2004), Chapter 39; Tock family saying
“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.”
Fuente: Forever Odd (2005), Chapter 11; Odd Thomas's recounting of a conversation with Little Ozzie
Contexto: "Sometimes," I said, "it seems to me that a friend might not take such pleasure in making fun of me as you do."
"Dear Odd! If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness."
“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
Fuente: Intensity
“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.”
Fuente: Brother Odd
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
Fuente: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Part 2, Chapter 9.2; Nora to an ill and unresponsive Einstein at the veterinary clinic
Watchers (1987)
Contexto: I thought of you as my guardian, Einstein… you taught me that I'm your guardian, too, that I'm Travis's guardian, and he is my guardian and yours. We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull.
“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”
Fuente: Life Expectancy