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Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she...more

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Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

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Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like different things, but Ralph thought they were rea...more

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The last good time always comes

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The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in one place long enough to start thinking about what...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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Several times we had been very close to "it," but "it" just never quite happened. She always drew back, and I never pressed her. God help me, I was be...more

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What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.

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There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in yo...more

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When it comes to sex, no pairing is beyond belief.

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Not everyone believes in ghost’s, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?“ She had shaken her head slowly. "Men and women who can’t get over the ...more

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He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to ...more

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Sometimes dead is better

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That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.

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You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.