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We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

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Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that cra...more

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Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down...more

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The best part, though, was hearing my mother's voice. It was like having her again, coming out from far inside me. It hurt, of course, but more often ...more

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It's the people who aren't scared who die young.

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At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first...more

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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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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