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“Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?
She had shaken her head slowly.
Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.”
― Needful Things
She had shaken her head slowly.
Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.”
― Needful Things
“Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying.”
― The Drawing of the Three
― The Drawing of the Three
“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
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