Raising her voice above the noise, Martha said: ‘What’s that stink?’ Tom smiled. She had not been in a town for a couple of years. ‘That’s the smell of people,’ he told her.
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.”
― The Stand
Or you don't.”
― The Stand
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