He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You donโt want them to feel youโve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesnโt come along all that often.
Dean KoontzWe are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
Dean KoontzHe was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.
Dean Koontz