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“People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“How ironic! We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“because I don’t want to believe we just end, even though it balances the equation—since we came from blackness, it seems logical to assume that it’s to blackness we return. But I believe in the stars, and the infinity of the universe. That’s the great Out There.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Give people hope, and you could make them do just about anything. And not just your average, everyday kind of hope—for food or clothes or the absence of pain or good suburban schools or low down payments with easy financing. What people needed was a hope beyond the visible world, the world of the body and its trials, of life’s endless dull parade of things.”
― Justin Cronin, The Twelve