Frases de Dean Koontz

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“Don't ever call me adorable again. Puppies are adorable.”

“Las decisiones que cada uno de nosotros tomamos y las acciones que acompañan a dichas decisiones son como vibraciones en la cuerda de una guitarra”

“La oscuridad devora la brillante luz del día.
La oscuridad exige y siempre gana.
La oscuridad escucha, observa, espera.
La oscuridad reclama el día que celebra.
A veces en el silencio llega la oscuridad.
A veces con un alegre repique de campanas.”

“Siempre resplandece el cielo antes del anochecer.”

“En el punto donde esperanza y razón se separan reside el lugar en que la locura se dispara.”

“Podemos caer en el amor: nunca es demasiado tarde.
¿Y por qué, entonces, dormimos odiando?
Las creencias no requieren puntos suspensivos para ver que el Infierno es invención nuestra.
Hacemos que el Infierno sea de verdad: alimentamos sus fuegos.
Y en sus llamas mueren nuestra esperanzas.
El Cielo, también, es simplemente una creación nuestra. Podemos otorgarnos nuestra propia salvación.
Todo lo que se requiere es imaginación.”

“Toda vida es una novela. La escribimos a medida que la vivimos.”

“"Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go."
"Which is where?"
"To a responsible future in a properly managed world."”

“He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing — but he did have a talent for baking… The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.”

“He's a hollow man. He believes in anything. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.”

“Dr. Bob managed so successfully to turn the answer to every question into a mini-lecture on self-esteem and positive thinking, that Ethan wanted Hazard to arrest him on charges of Felony Cliché and Practicing Philosophy Without An Idea.”

“It's so damn hard to bloom… to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without… love.”

“She said, "Love isn't enough. Your parents have to know how to relate to you, and to each other. They have to want to be with you more than with anyone else. They have to love being home more than anywhere in the world, and they have to be more interested in you than in…"
"Snakes and tornadoes," I suggested.
"God, I love them. They're nice, Jimmy, they really are, and they mean well. But they live inside themselves more than not, and they keep their doors closed. You see them mostly through windows."”