# Quote — Dean Koontz, The Taking

> For most of her existence, Molly had not shied from a truth that most people understood but diligently suppressed: that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature.

- Author: [Dean Koontz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz.md)
- Book: [The Taking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/the-taking.md)
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## More from this book

> Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

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