This felt familiar, at least. In San Francisco, people only grudgingly uncorked a bottle of wine at parties and they always had multiple nonalcoholic options. Here they just assumed you were drinking the second you sat down, and for that,
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“But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“If the horror story is our rehearsal for death, then its strict moralities make it also a reaffirmation of life and good will and simple imagination—just one more pipeline to the infinite.”
― Danse Macabre
― Danse Macabre
“Hurting was the only language that the Richie Boddins of the world seemed to understand, and Mark supposed that was why the world always had such a hard time getting along.”
― 'Salem's Lot
― 'Salem's Lot
“My name is Hugo. No, just Hugo. That's all they ever called me at the Home. I lived at the Home ever since I can remember, and the Sisters were very kind to me. The other children, they would not play with me because of my back and my squint but the Sister’s were kind. They didn’t call me “Crazy Hugo’’ and make fun of me because I couldn’t recite. They didn’t get me in the corner and hit me and make me cry.”
― The Best of Robert Bloch: Volume 3
― The Best of Robert Bloch: Volume 3
“That’s what mortal terror felt like, he realized. Tiny fingers tickling you from the inside.”
― The Troop
― The Troop
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