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I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, e...more

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So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

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The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

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Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

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I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even thou...more

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At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it'. Dan ...more

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No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They’re the real ghosts.

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I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

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It's best to be ruthless with the past.

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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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…but I guess you can never wash anything completely away, not from this dark glass of a world, and now I saw them again, a tangle of names overlying o...more

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Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

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Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw S...more