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“Dying was a part of living. You had to keep tuning in to that if vou expected to be a whole person. And if the fact of your own death was hard to understand, at least it wasn't impossible to accept.”

“Freud said that the subconscious never speaks to us in literal language. Only in symbols.” Stephen King and the psychology of fear. What a fascinating combination!

His relationship with his father had been like the unfurling of some flower of beautiful potential, which, when wholly opened, turned out to be blighted inside.

“I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.”

WHAT A GOOD START!