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“If that ceased, he would be utterly destroyed. To pass beyond communication was to pass beyond salvation”

“…fear was fertile, its child was rage, and rage cried for revenge.”

“…and then a voice was talking to him, a soothing voice, whispering in his ear: it doesn’t matter when this is, and it doesn’t matter who you are.”

Getting into the more surreal stuff now. Time folding in on itself, parallel events, the seamless flow between timelines, strange dreams, consciences entering others’ bodies…

“…incapable of faith or crippled by a sort of spiritual and imaginative arthritis”

This is the first and possibly only time I’m going to say: well done, Pennywise.

Everyone’s favorite childhood pastime: smoke asphyxiation until the trippy prehistoric visions start.

“Little kids giggled together. High school sweethearts held hands…It was somehow magical, magical in a good way that he had been too young to account for with such mundane things…the magic was in watching people walk through it…It made them lovely and Godlike.”

“…it occurred to him that kids were better at almost dying, and they were also better at incorporating the inexplicable into their lives. They believed implicitly in the invisible world.”

Another quote pointing to a theme of kids’ resilience.

“You can live with fear, I think, Stan would have said if he could. Maybe not forever, but for a long, long time. It’s *offense* you maybe can’t live with, because it opens up a crack inside your thinking”

“…but you couldn’t very well tell interviewers that as far as you were concerned, such things as dreams and vague longings and sensations like déjà-vu really come down to nothing more than a bunch of mental farts.”

If that’s all they are, then count me as strongly pro-mental fart.