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“My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!”
― Craig Shoemaker

“so many books, so little time”
― Frank Zappa

“Workers new to the job, rookie cops and ambulance drivers, struggle with the mess. Their eyes reel at ripped distortions that blur a formerly human identity. Experienced death workers throw a professional switch in their brains and see the face more clearly. Their eyes methodically link dismembered limbs, realign a rictus grin, and separate identity from wreckage. Cooly. As connoisseurs. For the investigators a dead body is not so much victim as evidence, the ultimate clue to the workings of the perpetrator. Banked”
― Sean Tejaratchi, Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

“What the do-gooders label “de-sensitization” has a value as well as a price. Some of us can’t afford to be shocked by catastrophe. The surgeon, the burn ward nurse, emergency room attendants, paramedics, firefighters and cops, all those who scrape the still-screaming remains out of car wrecks, must cultivate their off-switch. Those who can’t learn to crack wise and discuss baseball over a corpse must find a gentler line of work. The rumor is that city cops get strange from what they see, their eyes flattening or sinking into sockets as deep and hollow as rat holes.”
― Sean Tejaratchi, Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

“Except you couldn’t put anything behind you. Nothing was lost until death or Alzheimer’s took it all. He knew that. He saw it confirmed in every session he held with every prisoner; you wore your history like a necklace, a smelly one made of garlic.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Snakes do not need to justify their behavior.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Loss changes you. Sometimes that’s bad. Sometimes it’s good. Either way, you eat your goddam pork chop and go on.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“There are some things in life you can alter—your weight, your appearance, even your name—but there are others that wishing and trying and working hard can never make any difference to. Those things are the ones that shape us. Not the things we can change, but the ones we can’t.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“History itself is only ever a story, told by the ones who survive it.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Personally, I have found that it is much better to take your fears, lock them up in a nice, tightly shut box and shove them into the deepest, darkest corner of your mind. But each to their own.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies; simply the truths we don’t tell.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“We are, like our beloved garden greens, sturdy, strong, and best when tested by the elements and fully seasoned.”
― Celia Rivenbark, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

“Will I stop describing, as only a true Southerner can, a truly awful physical appearance as simply “most unfortunate” as in, “She has a most unfortunate nose”?”
― Celia Rivenbark, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

“And I believe in A. Conan Doyle, who had Sherlock Holmes say, ‘Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.’ ”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“We always say that if an individual makes you viscerally uncomfortable, there is probably a legitimate reason and you should pay attention to that feeling.”
― John Edward Douglas, Law & Disorder

“The broken illuminate the unbroken.”
― Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

“Memory scientists have a word to describe those sorts of moments, when something in the immediate present triggers the recollection of something in the distant past: ecphory.”
― Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

“That title came from a metaphor King used in his Introduction to Night Shift, in which he explained that the horror writer takes you in a room and shows you the shape under the sheet, and that that shape is your own dead body.”
― Stephen Spignesi, Stephen King, American Master: A Creepy Corpus of Facts About Stephen King His Work

“The universe is large, he thought. It contains multitudes. It also contains me, and in this moment I am wonderful. I have a right to be wonderful.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

“You don’t answer a perp’s questions; the perp answers yours.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

“Love is a gift; love is also a chain with a manacle at each end.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

“You can’t have everything, she thinks; into every life a little poop must fall. But sometimes you do get what you need. Which is really all a sane person can ask for.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

“Reality was deep, and it was far. It held many secrets and went on forever.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

“It was like a splinter, one lodged in his mind instead of under his skin.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. —Franz Kafka”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“He can’t endure being powerless. He cannot tolerate it.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Love was the best thing when you had it, and the most terrible thing when it was taken from you.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“But if you understood the cold indifference of nature, as dogs did, then you did not hope to live forever in this violent world. You tried instead to make the world better while you were here, and you put your hope in another, better world.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Misery always weighed heavier when hope’s corpse had barely cooled.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Strangers