QUOTES - HISTORY TO REMEMBER

Here is part of a conversation that strikes a balance between chastisement and pointed criticism...

“I like modern things. Slick, sleek, minimalist.”
“It’s unlivable,” she declared.
“I’m sorry?”
“You don’t need to apologize. You just didn’t know any better when you bought all this.”   
“I know what I like. Everyone to his own taste.”
“Do you ever sit here?” she asked.
“Why would I sit here?”
“Exactly my point. Sitting here would be about as comfortable as sitting in a dentist’s waiting room.”  
“Who sits in any living room?” he said. “People sit in their family rooms.”
“Then why have a living room?”
“Well, houses have always had living rooms.”
“The view is cool,” she said. “I like how you put the ocean just where you did.”   

The Bad Weather Friend" by Dean Koontz

What have you done to your hair?”
“Nothing.”
“That’s what I thought.”

"The Bad Weather Friend" by Dean Koontz   


This book is absolutely full of brilliant conversation, satire, and witty rejoinder. It's a study in vocabulary as well.  Koontz is a master at letting his characters breathe.