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“Then I took another sack and started going through all of the papers on my desk, and in the drawers of the desk. I was fairly ruthless and threw out things I'd been keeping for no good reason, stuff that if I died my unfortunate executor would have no hesitation in throwing out either, because what was he going to do with it... what was he going to do with old love letters, pay slips, gas and electric bills, yellowed typescripts of abandoned articles, instruction manuals for consumer durables I no longer possessed, holiday brochures the holidays of which I hadn't gone on... Jesus, it occurred to me -- as I stuffed all of this garbage into a bag -- the shit we leave behind us for other people to sort out.”
― Alan Glynn, The Dark Fields

“A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That’s how awful the loss is.”
― Jay Neugeboren, An Orphan's Tale

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Can we help you stop screaming? Can we help you stop screaming?’ “‘You could let me smell you.’ She puts her cheek up by my face. They are here. You have to understand that. They are here. ‘I’m not going to let you do an operation.’ “‘We won’t hurt you.’ “‘I’m not gonna let you do an operation on me. You have absolutely no right.’ “‘We do have a right.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“If I am right about them, it is unlikely that there will ever be the kind of open contact between our two species that seems so logical and useful to us. Even a well-intentioned human being would pose a threat, in that his accidentally taking an action they had not anticipated might cause them literally to lose track of him right in the middle of one of their own craft.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“Maybe you and I are larvae, and the “visitors” are human beings in the mature form. Certainly, we are consuming our planet’s resources with at least the avidity of caterpillars on a shrub.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion

“The act of exorcism implies a “driving out” of the demon, but it’s really more like placing a demon under oath. In some cases, it may be more than one demon inhabiting a person. The word “exorcism” comes from the Greek ek and the verb horkizo, which means “I cause [someone] to swear” and refers to “putting the spirit or demon to oath.” It’s more easily explained as invoking a higher authority to bind the entity so it can be caused to act contrary to its own will.”
― Troy Taylor, The Devil Came to St. Louis: The Uncensored True Story of the 1949 Exorcism

“Contrary to popular belief, possession doesn’t mean that a demon enters a person’s body and takes over their soul. The person’s free will is never removed, only severely compromised. In possession, a person is so physically, emotionally, mentally,”
― Troy Taylor, The Devil Came to St. Louis: The Uncensored True Story of the 1949 Exorcism

“Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and her brother giggled and her mother said calmly, 'She wants her cup of stars.'

Indeed yes, Eleanor thought; indeed, so do I; a cup of stars, of course.

'Her little cup,' the mother was explaining, smiling apologetically at the waitress, who was thunderstruck at the thought that the mill's good country milk was not rich enough for the little girl. 'It has stars in the bottom, and she always drinks her milk from it at home. She calls it her cup of stars because she can see the stars while she drinks her milk.' The waitress nodded, unconvinced, and the mother told the little girl, 'You'll have your milk from your cup of stars tonight when we get home. But just for now, just to be a very good little girl, will you take a little milk from this glass?'

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“As is now widely known, the real money in this and other gold rushes was not in gold itself, but in selling to gold-seekers supplies, tools, transportation — anything that fed their hopes.”
― Robert L. Fitzpatrick, Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing

“Two thoughts swam relentlessly through my head. Firstly, after cen turies of unsuccessful endeavor by minds far more enlightened than my own, how could I have been so arrogant to suppose that, with the guides’ help, I was actually unraveling the mysteries of life and death? And secondly, if the guides were not guides after all, who were they?”
― Joe Fisher, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides

“God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft