'Salem's Lot
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There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic.
“If we say that morality proceeds simply from a good heart—which has little to do with ridiculous posturings and happily-ever-afterings—and immorality proceeds from a lack of care, from shoddy observation, and from the prostitution of drama or melodrama for some sort of gain, monetary or otherwise, then we may realize that we have arrived at a critical stance which is both workable and humane.”
― Danse Macabre
― Danse Macabre
“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
“To them all, Beldame represented the fair and possible reward for distress, misfortune, and labor in this world—it was to them a heaven on earth, and resembled the other, preached-of heaven in that it was bright, remote, timeless, and empty.”
― The Elementals
― The Elementals
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