Frasi di Dean Koontz

Dean Ray Koontz è uno scrittore statunitense, noto per i romanzi che possono essere indicativamente descritti come suspense thriller, ma che incorporano di frequente elementi di horror, fantascienza, giallo e satira. All'inizio della sua carriera Koontz scrisse usando numerosi pseudonimi, mentre dagli anni ottanta ha pubblicato prevalentemente col proprio nome. Wikipedia  

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Dean Koontz Frasi e Citazioni

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Dean Koontz: Frasi in inglese

“None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.”

Dean Koontz libro One Door Away from Heaven

Origine: One Door Away from Heaven (2001), chapter 73, pp. 604, 605
Contesto: What will you find behind the door that is one door away from Heaven? […] If your heart is closed, then you will find behind that door nothing to light your way. But if your heart is open, you will find behind that door people who, like you, are searching, and you will find the right door together with them. None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

“Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.”

Dean Koontz libro Life Expectancy

Origine: Life Expectancy (2004), Chapter 39; Tock family saying

“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.”

Dean Koontz libro Forever Odd

Origine: Forever Odd (2005), Chapter 11; Odd Thomas's recounting of a conversation with Little Ozzie
Contesto: "Sometimes," I said, "it seems to me that a friend might not take such pleasure in making fun of me as you do."
"Dear Odd! If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness."

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”

Origine: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

“We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.”

Dean Koontz libro Watchers

Part 2, Chapter 9.2; Nora to an ill and unresponsive Einstein at the veterinary clinic
Watchers (1987)
Contesto: I thought of you as my guardian, Einstein… you taught me that I'm your guardian, too, that I'm Travis's guardian, and he is my guardian and yours. We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull.

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