Odd-thomas Quotes

...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him...

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm ...

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in ...

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an opti...

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

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...

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM....

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about peopl...

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corp...

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation ...

When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made...

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sus...

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have ...

You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince you...

In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invi...

The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To kno...

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only ...

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it pre...

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, ba...

But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards s...

Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light." "Waste and void, waste and void. Dar...

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intell...

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

Don't you love your mother, dear?""I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity...

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you migh...

So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——...

In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests ...

Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to eve...

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

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

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

These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or go...

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good,...

Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when y...

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as lo...

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had becom...

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists...

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as ...

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to dis...

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

Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowled...

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not...

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives onl...

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting.""Because of my dimples. D...

I'm not much for parties. Sometimes you have to wear a funny hat, sometimes they expect you to eat s...

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph...

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Th...

From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the f...

...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...

Denial couldn't be maintained.

He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it...

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity a...

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a...

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the f...

Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and...

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than ...

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people r...

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

Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember f...

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...

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight a...

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misf...

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his pa...

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and so...

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic a...

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in...

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tendernes...

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and ...

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.W...

A broken thing can't fix itself.

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities...

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

...up to no good—and pleased about it.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or ...

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen mom...

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

There will be something very wrong with any place we go.

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I ...

What we fear too much we often bring to pass.

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

All death matters.""Only to the living.