'Salem's Lot

by Stephen King

a Falmouth girl with the most delectable set of jahoobies you ever clapped an eye to,

“Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything.”

The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.

We must go through bitter waters before we reach the sweet.

“And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him. And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth, at the east side of Eden. That’s Scripture, Miss Coogan. The hardest scripture in the Bible.”