Quotes From "False Memory" By Dean Koontz

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch. Dean Koontz

Where does fiction end and reality begin? Dean Koontz

Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year. Dean Koontz

There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there's no Other and there's just me alone, then I'm not the person I thought I was, I'm something twisted and terrible, terrible. Dean Koontz

Hope lies in action Dean Koontz

His pulse races under my palms. "Was there ever.. .between us, was there ever something?" I say. He shakes his head. "Just for me. But you were always Noah's.""I don't want to be." He doesn't say anything. Dan Krokos

Your memories don't make you who you are. Dan Krokos

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow. Dean Koontz

He stops pacing. 'I know, Miranda, I did it because I–' 'Stop! Don't say it. I don't want to hear you say it.' 'I have to say it, ' Noah says. 'No, you don't.' If I hear him say the word love, I don't know what I'll do. I still have my gun. Maybe one day I can forgive him, but all chance of that goes out the window if he claims he did it for love. If you love someone, the idea is respect them enough to trust them. Not to take away their freedom. Their life. Dan Krokos

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd. Dean Koontz

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. Dean Koontz