Firestarter

by Stephen King

People with no money disappeared in New York; they dropped into the sidewalks, never to be seen again.

Sad even today

“Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.

Good notion

If I believed in the human soul, Captain Hollister, I would say it resides within the pituitary gland.”

Ill have to look that up

Hadn’t somebody said that perfect paranoia and perfect awareness were the same thing?

A wierd way to think of it

“Apple pie without a piece of cheese is like a smooch without a squeeze.”

Will have to try that

Those were the two men out there that had killed his wife and stolen his daughter, and if they weren’t right with Jesus, he pitied them.

Damn right

“It’s gonna be all right,” he told her, and rocked her, not really believing it, but it was the litany, it was the Psalter, the voice of the adult calling down the black well of years into the miserable pit of terrorized childhood; it was what you said when things went wrong; it was the nightlight that could not banish the monster from the closet but perhaps only keep it at bay for a little while; it was the voice without power that must speak nevertheless.

Good writing

God loves to make a man break a vow. It keeps him properly humble about his place in the world and his sense of self-control.

Very true

Ideals were cheap things to hold as long as there were no solid arguments for their overthrow.

Always true

Her father was turning into a fat, apathetic pudding; the psychologists had their own terms for it—“dependency shock,” and “loss of identity,” and “mental fugue,” and “mild reality dysfunction”—but what it all came down to was he had given up and could now be canceled out of the equation.