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You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

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Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but death and taxes. But that’s n...more

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One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

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To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.

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Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

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Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the ...more

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What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.

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The monster nevers dies.

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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through fa...more

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Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

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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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At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come 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