Hayden Gilbert’s Reviews > The Exorcist > Status Update

I hardly ever get scared by a book, but I haven’t been able to shake this passage:
“Gliding spiderlike, rapidly, close behind Sharon, her body arched backward in a bow with her head almost touching her feet, was Regan, her tongue flicking quickly in and out of her mouth while she hissed sibilantly like a serpent…
Wherever Sharon moved, Regan would follow.”

“…In our sleep, pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God...”
Aeschylus

The chapters with Father Karras and his mom are makin me cry dude 😭

“…the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek that followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all. It was difficult to judge.
…What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night.”