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Misery
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If a book remained roadblocked long enough, it began to decay, to fall apart; all the little tricks and illusions started to show.
“The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“The professor said people had the mistaken idea that Poe wrote fantastic stories about the supernatural, when in fact he wrote realistic stories about abnormal psychology.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
“The Christ was grinning, vulpine. His eyes were wide and staring, reminding Burt uneasily of Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera. In each of the wide black pupils someone (a sinner, presumably) was drowning in a lake of fire. But the oddest thing was that this Christ had green hair…hair which on closer examination revealed itself to be a twining mass of early-summer corn.”
― Children of the Corn
― Children of the Corn
“But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
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