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Charlie Fenton
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‘Time after time she had seen herself leaving him, leaving Tom’s tyranny as she had left that of her father, stealing away in the night, bags piled in the trunk of her Cutlass. She was not a stupid woman, certainly not stupid enough even now, standing on the rim of this incredible shambles, to believe that she had not loved Tom and did not in some way love him still. But that did not preclude her fear of him...‘
— Jun 25, 2018 03:20PM
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Charlie Fenton
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‘It had always fed well on children. Many adults could be used without knowing they had been used, and It had even fed on a few of the older ones over the years - adults had their own terrors, and their glands could be tapped, opened so that all the chemicals of fear flooded the body and salted the meat. But their fears were mostly too complex. The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful.’
— Jul 05, 2018 05:10PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘How she came to understand that you could only protect your child through watchfulness and love, that you must tend a child as you tended a garden, fertilising, weeding, and yes, occasionally pruning and thinning, as much as that hurt. She would tell him that sometimes it was better for a child - particularly a delicate child like Eddie - to think he was sick than to really get sick.’
— Jul 03, 2018 02:49PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 591 of 1396
“I can remember something he said once - I don’t remember where we were or what we were doing, at least not yet, but I think it was toward the end of things. He said he could stand to be scared, but he hated being dirty. That seemed to me the essence of Stan. Maybe it was just too much, when Mike called. He saw his choices as being only two: stay alive and get dirty or die clean.”
— Jul 02, 2018 03:09PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 395 of 1396
‘He did not like the thought that he was to blame, but the only alternative he could think of to explain their behaviour was much worse: that all the love and attention his parents had given him before had somehow been the result of George’s presence, and with George gone there was nothing for him... and all of that had happened at random, for no reason at all.’
— Jun 30, 2018 04:06PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 213 of 1396
‘The Douglas birch had told Henry he had flunked both English and math. She was passing him, she said, but he would have to take four weeks of summer make-up. Henry would rather have stayed back. If he’d stayed back, his father would have beaten him up once. With Henry at school four weeks of the farm’s busiest season, his father was apt to beat him up half a dozen times, maybe even more.’
— Jun 27, 2018 03:22PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 133 of 1396
I like the fact King wrote this chapter from Beverley’s husband’s point of view. It is rare you read something from the abuser’s point of view. It is really creepy and disturbing, yet IT isn’t even in it.
— Jun 25, 2018 02:58PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘My Eddie cannot take physical education. I repeat: he canNOT take phys ed. Eddie is very delicate, and if he runs... or jumps...
Mrs Kaspbrak, I have the results of Eddie’s last physical on file in my office - that’s a state requirement. It says that Eddie is a little small for his age, but otherwise he’s absolutely normal. So I called your family physician just to be sure and he confirmed -‘
— Jun 25, 2018 02:39PM
Mrs Kaspbrak, I have the results of Eddie’s last physical on file in my office - that’s a state requirement. It says that Eddie is a little small for his age, but otherwise he’s absolutely normal. So I called your family physician just to be sure and he confirmed -‘
Charlie Fenton
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‘He looked around at her. She thought the look on his face was one of gentle abstraction, perhaps mixed with minor annoyance. It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black.’
— Jun 24, 2018 01:24PM
Charlie Fenton
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“Very wise indeed. Therefore I will introduce myself. I, Georgie, am Mr Bob Gray, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Pennywise, meet George Denbrough. George, meet Pennywise. And now we know each other. I’m not a stranger to you, and you’re not a stranger to me. Kee-rect?”
— Jun 24, 2018 04:52AM
