She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
Dean KoontzTag: marriage divorce pity feel-sorry
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.
Dean KoontzTag: empathy weakness predators lack-of-empathy
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
Dean KoontzTag: angel halo reading-lamp
We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche.
Dean KoontzTag: breakfast coffee plotting brioche
As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.
Dean KoontzTag: self-deception indulge lying-to-ourselves
You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
Dean KoontzTag: honesty lying sincerity lamb
It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing...Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia.
Dean KoontzTag: death deadly master-death poinsonous
You've always mistaken my absolute self-assurance for profound thought.
Dean KoontzTag: self-assurance profound-thought
I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
Dean KoontzTag: reason balance rational irrational unreason
This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.
Dean KoontzTag: faith intuition illogical blind-faith gut-feeling
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