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Of course, one must always remember that although The Sound of Music is the most feel-good movie musical of all time, it is crammed full of Nazis.

From time to time, things in this world fall out of harmony, and there is a need to synchronize.

A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

What does worry accomplish, except to breed more worry".

Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

instrument for nothing, and she had wanted to learn to play it largely because

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience ...

She has these dark eyes as deep as galaxies. It's easy to get lost in them.

She ran for the only medicine that reliably cured any bout of unpleasant feelings: a book.

Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt.

In this world, Evil works through countless surrogates. Its name is Legion. But Good works through surrogates, as well, and they are legion, too.

We live in God's amusement park.

Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.

ravaged kidney; but, God willing, she would be able to enjoy a full life with the one that remained.

Maybe you think you don't need help. Sometimes, I think I don't need it, either. But we all do. We all need help.

People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

But by nature, the human heart yearns most for what it cannot have.

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

Mercy is a concept embraced by the weak, and I am not weak.

were half dead from too little water,

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings ...

He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

resplendent chambers of a true king's tomb.

And she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Loop me in, odd one.

Finally turning his head, he regarded me appraisingly, with contempt so thick that I expected to hear it drizzle to the floor with a spattering sound.

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

Hands of Mercy and tanks of hell.

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

You must never lie to yourself, or you are left with no one to trust.

Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it.

I rarely drink, but there are times when even drinking too much is not enough.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires ...

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them.

Echoing off the tile walls, the sizzle-splash of the falling water sounded like the hissing of serpents and the brittle laughter of strange children.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

The nip that twitches through your blood is the chill of the sudden suspicion that you are a stranger in a strange land.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

should know. Though

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

Night has patterns that can be read
less by the living than by the dead.

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

Simplify, simplify. That was the secret to a happy life.

Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas)

Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy.

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Stay with me, God. The night is dark, The night is cold: My little spark Of courage dies. The night is long; Be with me, God, and make me strong.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

The dark makes the light stuff brighter.

Life would be easy if common sense ruled; but sometimes the easy way doesn't feel like the right way.

Sometimes he found it frustrating to be a sadist in an age when self-mutilation was all the rage

I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

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

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

Surrender to fear is an invitation to doubt.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Another plum, another plum, another plum for me! Jocko shakes the cyber tree! Ah ha-ha-ha, Ah ha-ha-ha!

His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.

I couldn't make up anything as weird as what is.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

You're a murderer.'
'So are you' she said.
'No, I kill. You murder.'
'What's the difference?'
'I kill murderers.

It will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

Life is hard in a world gone wrong.

Every place is the same place in the end.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.

My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.

War," Pax said, "either dulls the mind to despair or sharpens it toward intuitive truths.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

Every failure hollows out my heart a little further, and no success is able to refill any of that emptiness.