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I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

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There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.

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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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The young man was sort of ... well ... peering at this shovel, and Lisey knew not by his face but by the whole awkward this-way-n-that jut of his lank...more

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He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all...more

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Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I’llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental as...more

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You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

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The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedla...more

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That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a t...more

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When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the qui...more

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She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

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He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he'...more