The Stand
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just … come out the other side. Or you don’t.
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It had been at a political rally, which he had attended on the advice of his mother, given many years ago. If you can’t afford a movie, go to the zoo. If you can’t afford the zoo, go see a politician.
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A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.
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Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark.