Charlie Fenton’s Reviews > Pet Sematary > Status Update

‘Grief, not stupidity, Louis. There is a difference … small, but vital. The battery that burying ground survives on... And it isn’t just grief it feeds on. Sanity. It’s eaten your sanity. The flaw is only the inability to accept, not uncommon. It’s cost you your wife and it’s almost surely cost you your best friend as well as your son. This is it.’

‘he was aware he had crossed a line, back when Rachel had asked him if he had gone over to Jud’s last night and he told her he had. In his mind he suddenly heard Jud Crandall saying: The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, Louis … a man grows what he can … and he tends it.’

Maybe I’ll change my mind when I have my own kids, but I agree with Louis really. We hide death and all that from children which just makes them more curious, as if it isn’t a normal thing that happens, when it should be something that is open for discussion to some extent.

‘“Church is not going to die today, or tomorrow—“
“I tried to tell her that—“
“Or the day after that, or probably for years—“
“Honey, we can’t be sure of th—“
“Of course we can!’ she shouted. “We take good care of him, he’s not going to die, no one is going to die around here”’