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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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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 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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Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like different things, but Ralph thought they were rea...more

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The last good time always comes

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Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

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I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off...more