205 Quotes About Odd-thomas

...I can't allow myself to be wary of one place merely because it reminds me of another place where I almost died, because just about every place reminds me of another place...

In time she said, "I love you, Oddie."My voice was thick when I replied. "I love you more than life.”"We'll be okay," she said."We are okay.""We're weird and screwed-up, but we're okay," she agreed."If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would melt under my tongue. But you-you're cool.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

The less I have, the less I can lose.

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

You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

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

Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.