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“It seems to me that after someone sweeps across your life like a red-hot flame, peeling back the shutters that sat over your heart and your mind and setting free your sweetest dreams or your worst nightmares, after things cool down you've got two choices. You can either slip back into your old self, your old life, tucking those things you were too scared to look at back into hiding, or you can keep those parts of yourself out until you get so used to them that they don't scare you anymore and they just become a part of who you are.”
― The Book of Bright Ideas
― The Book of Bright Ideas
“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
― Full Dark, No Stars
― Full Dark, No Stars
“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”
― Nightwoods
― Nightwoods
“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― It
― It
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