Odd Thomas Quotes
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.
Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.
There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.
She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.
Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.
In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.
These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.
Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...
...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.
The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.
But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern
I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.
I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.
Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.
Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.
But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.
As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.
If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.
I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.
The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.
All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.
To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.
I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.
...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.
So, " said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought.
More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.
Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.
Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.
Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty
Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool
If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.
Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.
It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting.""Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card
He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.
Free will, " she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.
Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more.
Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.
You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.
