Quotes From "Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure" By Dean Koontz

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

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried. Dean Koontz

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning... Dean Koontz

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

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

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure. Dean Koontz

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly. Dean Koontz

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. Dean Koontz

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. Dean Koontz

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

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning. Dean Koontz

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still. Dean Koontz

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go. Dean Koontz

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

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting Dean Koontz

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved... Dean Koontz