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The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

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Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

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

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You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.

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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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A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

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Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same f...more

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I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

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Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

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The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary

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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.