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Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.

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All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy...more

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Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

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Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possible to imagine it turning blood-red, all too possibl...more

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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even cry...more

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Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

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I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the...more

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I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.

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Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

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Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

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My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascin...more

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Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

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What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

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the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.