You had a good dinner of properly fried food, and if you want to live long enough to have another one, you’ve got to weaponize properly.
Dean KoontzTag: weapons self-defense fried-food
There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.
Dean KoontzTag: self vanity reflection introspection self-awareness
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 KoontzTag: life progress purpose conflict moving-forward
Its immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.
Dean KoontzWaiting is one of the things that humans 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. If we are good at waiting, we discover that what we wanted of the future, in our impatience, is no longer what we want, that waiting has brought wisdom. I have become good at waiting, as I wait to see what action or sacrifice is wanted of me, wait to discover where I must go next, and wait for the day when the fortuneteller's promise will be fulfilled. Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting.
Dean KoontzI am getting the chaos I wanted. The problem is, you can switch the chaos on, but chaos itself is in control of the off switch.
Dean KoontzWe don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.
Dean KoontzTag: failure indecision self-doubt
...Child, do you know where trult great courage comes from, the kind of courage that will never back down?'
I said, "Faith."
"And love," she said. "faith is a kind of love you know. Love of what is unseen but certain. Love makes us strong and brave.
Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.
Dean KoontzThe chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.
Dean KoontzTag: imagery personification chilling beautiful-writing
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