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“He prayed, as people long bereft of belief will pray, the belief having lain dormant, awaiting some moment of terror such as this to germinate it, to bring forth a shoot so delicate and small and dear.”
― Andy Davidson, The Boatman's Daughter

“Chris swabbed Regan’s arm. “Now, get out!” Karras ordered as he poked the hypodermic needle into wasted flesh.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“There were few things in life Julie Crews enjoyed more than bachelorette parties. They were, by design, one of those rare events where women weren’t just permitted but encouraged to throw off their inhibitions. No matter the amount of booze or the quantity of strippers, the drugs or the homoerotic shenanigans, the shrieking, the woo-girling, the balloon penises, the everything, it was all waved away as girls being girls, a bacchanal of the stupid, like oblations for a twenty-first-century neon Dionysus.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train

“Karras moved slowly to the foot of the bed, where he stopped and then listened to the quiet rumbling of diarrhetic voiding into plastic pants.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist