The Forest of Lost Souls

by Dean Koontz

doesn’t just recede into the distance but seems

deliquesce into the twilight, a shape of white mist that evaporates into the gloom.

Dignity is a consequence of perseverance, persistence,

can’t be a hero if you run away from either the enemy or the truth of yourself. Now he understands

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couldn’t see a mayfly’s future iffen it was one day through its two days in this world.”

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candlelight reveals tears pooled but unshed in her uncle’s eyes, and her feelings for him are so tender that she’s loath to ask why he chose a life alone.

She thinks, Have pity on those who love and are separated, on the lonely, on those who mourn, on those who fear, on all the little animals that live their lives as prey, but pity as well the animals that must kill to survive in this fallen world.

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