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When it came to producing a state of focus, quiet contentment, and inner peace, Zen meditation ran a very distant second to caffeine.

Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better ...

The sweetest softest melody, as good a sound as the laughter of a pretty girl, or your mother calling you to dinner.

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

He knew, too, from things Vic had not told him, that she missed him and loved him with an intensity perhaps matched only by what she felt for her son.

Don't believe everything you hear today

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

It's about the terror of an ordinary life" or "It's the story of a man shipwrecked in his own mind." But

People have pretty rubbery brains. They can take quite a bit of bouncing around. Come on. Band-Aids and tea. And answers. They're all right this way.

It was perhaps, the devil's oldest precept, that sin could always be trusted to reveal what was most human in a person as often for good as for ill.

If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils.

Fuck narrative elegance.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

I am always with you. Love never burns away. It just keeps on and on.

She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

There's always a little decency in the worst places ... and always a little secret selfishness in the best.

Usually you can only catch the Sasquatch blur of your own legendary moments in the side mirrors.

Still, she shoved herself to her feet, because she needed to do what she could, whether it made a difference or not.

If I die in a plane crash remember to always bag and board your comics.

Every thought I have is colored by what I learned by what I learned from reading Ray Bradbury.

If hell was anything, it was talk radio - and family.

In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the impression you were also offering a lay.

First time I ever joint the Chorus," Don Lewiston said, "I forgot the face of my father,

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

Most people took no more notice of the profoundly deaf than they did of their own shadows. They

Americans curse without any imagination at all. Harper

The truth is always more scary than kissing someone for the first time.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.

Repulsion masks attraction

Ma'am," Cline said, "I hid under dead bodies less cold than you." He glanced at Harper and

The fires of hell are not hot enough for a man - or woman! - who would hurt his children.

The dead pull the living down.

On the other hand, it was a well-known fact that cell phones were tools of the devil. He selected

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

The problem with role models is they teach you roles.

They had forgotten their own names, the voices of their mothers, the faces of their fathers.

If you hated someone, she was at least worthy of your passion. He

I told you had to be some kind of karmic opposite to the words I love you.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

-one teebs? You mean tablespoon?"
"I don't know.

Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself.

Why am I not good at anything?"
"You're a good dad."
"It ain't rocket science."
No, Vic thought. It was harder.

With its towering smokestack, it looked like a factory built to produce nightmares in mass quantities.

The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star, or

At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

Any business model based around poor people making bad decisions out of ignorance and desperation always works.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom.

Prison didn't frighten him especially. He had a lot of fans in there.

Charlie Manx laughed, the big, hoarse hee-haw of a country shithead who has just heard a joke involving a kike, a nigger, and a feminist.

He had long accepted that everyone had his own world inside, each as real as the communal world shared by all but impossible for others to access.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

Money he didn't have, but fuck it, that was the easiest kind to spend - and

Was tall in a way she associated with fun-house mirrors: rail-thin legs and arms that went on forever.

LIBRARIES: WHERE SHHH HAPPENS.

The girl worked the clutch and the gas and the brake expertly with her right foot, just as her father had taught her.

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Lindy became an instructor at an upscale gym, where she taught aerobic pole dancing

Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from,

That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Goddamn bloody arsefoam. Daddy drilling Mommy on the kitchen table.

You're so adorable when you're nautical,

AROUND FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND NONFAMILY CHILD ABDUCTIONS occur each year in America,

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.

They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.

Something that doesn't know it's alive obviously can't be expected to know when it's dead.

I don't follow," she said. "You and me . . . how 'bout it? Dire Straits?

He thought the government was trying to enslave humanity by controlling grammar.

But the desert offers something that no forest brook or valley ever can: distance. A

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

GOD BURNED ALIVE ONLY DEVILS NOW.

There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it's always for their own personal psychological reasons.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

Jude did not flip them off and then drove for a few blocks feeling good about himself, proud of his restraint. His will, it was like iron.

Basically, it comes down do this: You can live life as a cripple or a coward. What happens now is up to you.

Some part of her felt that the existence of the bridge depended utterly on forward motion and not thinking too much.

I'm a Browncoat, man." "More like turncoat," Daltry said, and laughed. Flecks of spittle hit Bilbo in the face.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night. A merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, a kiss from a girl.

Heroism was exhausting business.

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.

How's that? Do I look like Errol Flynn?" "You are a dashing motherfucker," she told him. She

As a world of shared ideas, Twitter is a kind of Inscape in and of itself, and a good one.

It was Hooper. The big, pale dog stared urgently into Wayne's face, forepaws on the bed. His damp gaze was unhappy, even stricken.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

Lee's face was a Spock-on-the-bridge-of-the-Enterprise blank.

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

Vic had gotten rid of the Hoff years ago. The Hoff was a loser, and Trans Ams were oil-leaking shitboxes. She didn't miss him.

Men who love the Stones are fixated on cock.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

That's what poetic speech is for
for the things that are true but don't make sense.

We have all been found guilty of being human. There are worse crimes.

He thought how the young are pierced by love, innocent bodies torn and ruined for no reason, save that it suited someone who held them dear.