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“People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.”
― NOS4A2
― NOS4A2
“If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.”
― Wolves of the Calla
― Wolves of the Calla
“All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue -- when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day -- I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.”
― NOS4A2
― NOS4A2
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