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She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs....more

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What we fear too much we often bring to pass.

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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

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Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. M...more

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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.

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A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

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He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, fea...more

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I am the One, and I see all.But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They ...more

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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

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She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to...more

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Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

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Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.

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Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well s...more

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Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

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Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out ...more