Odd Thomas Quotes

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

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.

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

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.