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“Because I was tired of strangers vaguely recognizing it when I was introduced to them. Because I hated the way their features froze, if only for a second, when their memories clicked. Because it made me sick knowing my name and His will forever be associated. Coop ultimately talked me out of it. He said I should hold on to my name as a stubborn point of pride. Changing it wouldn’t separate the name Quincy Carpenter from the horrors of Pine Cottage. Keeping it could, if I moved on and made something of myself.”
― Final Girls
― Final Girls
“Outside, somewhere near, the world would soon be waking. He had watched it wake from the window of this very room, day after day, stirring itself to another round of fruitless pursuits, and he’d known, known, that there was nothing left out there to excite him.”
― The Hellbound Heart
― The Hellbound Heart
“Murder is a stranger beast than suicide, although the end result of both is the same. Even the words themselves differ. “Suicide” hisses like a snake—a sickness of the mind and soul. “Murder,” though, makes me think of sludge, dark and thick and filled with pain.”
― Final Girls
― Final Girls
“On weekends especially, the Showroom and Market Floor were packed with families, couples, retirees, people with nowhere else to go, college kids and their roommates, new families with their new babies… a legion of potential customers, clutching maps, bags stuffed with lists of model numbers written on sticky notes.. credit cards burning holes in their pockets, all of them ready to spend.”
― Horrorstör
― Horrorstör
“I know this is your religion, but for me it’s just a job.”
“That’s your problem,” Basil said. “For you it’s ‘just’ a job.”
“What’s it supposed to be?”
“Work.”
“Same thing,” Amy said.
“No,” Basil said. “A job is what a guy in a gas station has. People at Orsk have work. It’s a calling. A responsibility to something bigger than yourself. Work gives you a goal. It lets you build something that lives on after you’re gone. Work has a purpose beyond making money.”
“I am begging you to stop,” Amy said.
“There’s nothing wrong with being serious,” Ruth Anne said.
“She can’t take anything seriously,” Basil said. “That’s her problem.”
“I do my job,” Amy said. “I punch the clock, I work my shop, I sell people their desks, I cash my check. That’s what Orsk pays me to do: my job. I’m not planning on being in retail for the rest of my life.”
“Really? What are you going to do?”
“I’m …” Amy suddenly realized that in fact she didn’t have any plans. “I’ve got plans. They’re none of your business.”
― Horrorstör
“That’s your problem,” Basil said. “For you it’s ‘just’ a job.”
“What’s it supposed to be?”
“Work.”
“Same thing,” Amy said.
“No,” Basil said. “A job is what a guy in a gas station has. People at Orsk have work. It’s a calling. A responsibility to something bigger than yourself. Work gives you a goal. It lets you build something that lives on after you’re gone. Work has a purpose beyond making money.”
“I am begging you to stop,” Amy said.
“There’s nothing wrong with being serious,” Ruth Anne said.
“She can’t take anything seriously,” Basil said. “That’s her problem.”
“I do my job,” Amy said. “I punch the clock, I work my shop, I sell people their desks, I cash my check. That’s what Orsk pays me to do: my job. I’m not planning on being in retail for the rest of my life.”
“Really? What are you going to do?”
“I’m …” Amy suddenly realized that in fact she didn’t have any plans. “I’ve got plans. They’re none of your business.”
― Horrorstör
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