Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box #1)

by Stephen King

The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat.

“Names aren’t knowing.”

rambling man,

Randall Flagg?

She wants it because it’s hers.

My dad says the city council talked about taking them down, but everyone on the council is Republican, and Republicans hate change.

Gwendy has a thought (novel now in its adult implications, later to become a tiresome truth): secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in the world.