If It Bleeds

by Stephen King

That song still gives me the chills, and I suppose it always will.

What that song says about motherless children is true: they have a hard time.

Which song?

I could have used one of those hugs on that day. A mother-hug on that day might have changed a lot.

men who understand business also understand that promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free.

the Internet was like a broken watermain spewing information instead of water.

narrowing is the natural order of things.

Drinking is not good for secrets,

You can’t have everything, she thinks; into every life a little poop must fall.

Everything was eventual.

Reality was deep, and it was far. It held many secrets and went on forever.

Really, when you thought about it, everything was all rat.

‘Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the nowhere and into the here.’