“Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!”
― Needful Things
― Needful Things
“Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.”
― ’Salem’s Lot
― ’Salem’s Lot
“It's offense you maybe can't live with because it opens up a crack inside your thinking, and if you look down into it you see there are evil things down there, and they have little yellow eyes that don't blink, and there's a stink down there in that dark and after a while you think maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything, he would have told them if he could. Go to your church and listen to your stories about Jesus walking on the water, but if I saw a guy doing that I'd scream and scream and scream. Because it wouldn't look like a miracle to me. It would look like an offense.”
― It
― It
“The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.”
― It
― It
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