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And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear befor...more

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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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

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Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'Red: 'I played a mean harmonica...more

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He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that ...more

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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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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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Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

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What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just play-ground marbles, their bus...more

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The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between e...more

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...she did remember on time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom sink to get a sanitary napkin; she remembered lookin...more

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Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

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Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.