Tick Tock (1996) (edit title/settings)

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• Tommy Phan: Tommy Phan is a Vietnamese-American that is persistently trying to drown out his heritage with an all-American lifestyle. He believes that his heritage is solely in the past, and thinks that his family is "old-fashioned."
• Del Payne: Strange waitress
• Trang Dai: Add a description of this character.
• Scootie: Del's dog who seems much more intelligent then the average canine.
• Mother Phan
• Mrs. Payne
• Sal
• Mickey
• Mummingford: The Payne's Butler.
• Tuong Tommy: Tommy's Nickname given to him by Del.
• Marty
• Jim Shine
• Frank

Quotes edit see section history

• “There's always enough time if you think there is.”

• “Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations”

• “Sometimes you listen but you just don't hear.”

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• “Reality is perception. Perceptions change. Reality is fluid. So if by ‘reality’ you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events, then there’s no such thing.”

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• “Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.”

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• Family was the source of all blessings—and the home of all sadness. If that wasn’t a Vietnamese saying, it should have been.

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• “This is reality, tofu man, because reality is what we carry in our hearts, and my heart is full of beauty just for you.”

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• Reality is perception. Perceptions change. Reality is fluid. So if by “reality” you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events, then there’s no such thing…. I’ll explain someday when we have more time.

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• In the real world as in dreams, nothing is quite what it seems. —The Book of Counted Sorrows

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• Sharper than a serpent’s tooth is a thankless child.

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• “but it’s just that…because we’re closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.”

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• “Being a waitress is what I do. An artist is what I am.”

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• bodies, damaging every cell they encounter. You need antioxidants, vitamins C and E as a minimum, to bond with the free radicals and disarm them.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Tommy Phan's home: a two story building, with a front porch, at least one bedroom, and a "study," where Tommy writes his stories
• California
• Vietnam
• New World Saigon Bakery
• Pacific Coast Highway
• Balboa Island
• Huntington Beach
• Tonopah
• Tonuny

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Dean Koontz (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. B.D. Wong

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Koontz, Dean
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Dean Koontz: Author's website