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"The cloak of the moralist sat badly on his shoulders."

“Stop now, shhh,” Wendy said, alarmed. “Stop, Danny. It’s all right. It—” She was getting ready to go into her croon again. The Wendy Torrance All-Purpose Croon. Pat. Pending.

"This inhuman place makes human monsters."

My Goodness Gracious Sakes Alive! So much food in the kitchen!

REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! I don't know how I shall sleep tonight.

"Jack Torrance looked back over his shoulder once into the impenetrable, musty-smelling darkness and thought that if there was ever a place that should have ghosts, this was it."

"Solitude can be damaging in itself."

Elric had thought he might find a solution to a mystery here, but instead he had found another mystery. It was his fate, he thought, shrugging to himself.

"A free man is a better companion than a slave."

"Death is the promise we're all born with, sir."

"His smile is almost a grin, rather like that of a young scholar who plans to play truant from his tutor." I feel that I am going to like it.

"The most trivial incident sometimes sparks off a revolution."

"The Seth,
who is never late,
has no importance.
no weight.."
*facepalm*

"Every human being needs to know what she’s fighting for."

“They say the best men are born out of their faults and that they often improve later on, more than if they’d never done anything wrong..."

“If you can’t depend on someone being on time, you shouldn’t trust ’em with anything more important either..." Ove is the most peculiar man I have ever read about!

His days passed like this, slow and methodical. And then one morning he saw her. She had brown hair and blue eyes and red shoes and a big yellow clasp in her hair.

And then there was no more peace and quiet for Ove.

"He was a man of black and white.
And she was color. All the color he had!"
This book is going to keep me awake for the whole night. 🤓

"It was five to six in the morning when Ove and the cat met for the first time. The cat instantly disliked Ove exceedingly. The feeling was very much reciprocated." I feel that I am going to like this book.

"Grandpa Ray always said the only thing meaner than a mean drunk is a mellow drunk sober."

"But the notes we strike as children don't fade away. They only grow louder and resonate through all our days."

"So I'm asking it now. Put the hex on these fuckers. Get a gun in my hand and I'll see to the rest…"

"Getting what they want doesn't make men happy. Men don't know what they want."

"Small he might be, but the deadliest poisons come in small bottles."

The plot is becoming so complex that I am losing my mind. :-(

"Stew in pain long enough and every good thing will leach out of a man."

"Sometimes, right or wrong, you know it's time." I am loving it!

"There's a cold weight to a handgun that speaks of purpose."

"He gave them to Braunt, who pocketed them eagerly and then watched stonefaced as Jon climbed out of the mantid. There were no farewells." I like Jon.

"In fact, his crazed audacity had worked far better than he had ever imagined."