{"quotes":[{"text":"My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["belief","faith","life","meaning","odd-thomas"],"id":2075,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["eddie-fischer","life","meaning","mystery","odd-thomas"],"id":2926,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"More likely, they would just cease to exist.'That's death.'No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["brother-john","corpse","death","existence","odd-thomas"],"id":6320,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Waiting is one of the things that human 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 hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["future","impatience","odd-thomas","patience","success","waiting"],"id":8311,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"It's only life. We all get through it.Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["different-experiences","journey","life","odd-thomas"],"id":13532,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["fight","karla-porter","odd-thomas","spirit","strength","wyatt-porter"],"id":21595,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["odd-thomas","peace","sleep"],"id":23875,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["annamaria","enigma","friends","friendship","lovers","odd-thomas"],"id":23938,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["butter","charisma","charm","kipp","melt","odd-thomas","personality","smiles","toast"],"id":29039,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["annamaria","be-yourself","jolie-ann-harmony","love","odd-thomas"],"id":33440,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":152,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}