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Scream until the drug took her. 5 They started arriving after four o'clock in the afternoon. By five, Rachael's disappearance was the lead story on all the local news stations, even in Tucson and Phoenix. When six rolled around, there were more cars parked along No-Water Lane than when the Hasslers had hosted their last Fourth of July barbecue. Come 7:15 P.M., more than forty people had crowded into Will and Rachael's modest adobe home in A..
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in, or walling out.
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That prick's still your copyeditor?" "Yep. He's such a dick."
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Blake Crouch |
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Were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they're measured by their consequences.
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Oh, you mean so we can coexist? What kind of let's-hold-hands hippie shit are you suggesting?
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Blake Crouch |
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He thought of all the quaint Victorian houses in Wayward Pines and of all the families who lived inside them. How many residents--inmates--kept up a strong, carefree countenance during the day, but then lay awake at night, sleepless, minds racing, terrified and struggling to comprehend why they'd been locked away in this scenic prison? He imagined more than a few. But human beings were, if nothing else, adaptable.
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Blake Crouch |
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Lo que pudo haber sido y lo que ha sido se dirigen a un mismo fin, que siempre esta presente. Las pisadas resuenan en la memoria a traves del pasadizo que no tomamos, hacia la puerta que nunca abrimos.
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Blake Crouch |
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Are we standing in a physical location?" "I think it's a manifestation of the mind as it attempts to visually explain something our brains haven't evolved to comprehend."
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The people I bring out of suspension to populate my town won't have Facebook or iPhones, iPads, Twitter, next-day delivery. They'll interact like our species used to. Face-to-face.
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Perhaps once he had been a good clown. A noble clown. But he'd stolen Randall's chainsaw, and had to die.
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Blake Crouch |
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Thudding racket of the rock crushers pulverizing ore. The sound of the stamps in operation is the sound of money being made, and only two things will stop them--Christmas and tragedy.
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Blake Crouch |
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No dream without the nightmare.
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The older I get, the less I understand. I love my son. He means everything to me. And yet, I can't escape the feeling that I'm failing him. Sending him off to the wolves with nothing but the crumbs of my uncertain perspective.
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red veins in his cheeks that suggested a lifetime of heavy drinking. "Can I help you?" the man asked. He straightened himself up, blinking hard through the migraine. It took" --
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Why do people marry versions of their controlling mothers? Or absent fathers? To have a shot at righting old wrongs.
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Blake Crouch |
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Estoy buscando un grano de arena en una playa infinita.
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Esa es la belleza de la juventud. Hay una levedad que permea en todo porque todavia no has tomado esas malditas decisiones, no te has comprometido con ningun sendero, y el camino delante de ti se abre en disyuntivas puras, limpias, de potencial ilimitado. Amo
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The search for meaning was the cornerstone of human disquiet.
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It will occur to him months from now that if this had been a movie, he wouldn't have done it. Wouldn't have sunk to the level of this monster. But the ugly truth is it never even crosses Ethan's mind not to do it. And though he will continually dream about the crash, about all the things Aashif did to him, this moment will never haunt him. He will only wish it could have lasted longer.
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Even as those five words cross my mind, I'm not exactly certain what they mean, or how to begin to consider their full weight. So I say it again. I try it on. See how it fits. This is not my world.
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I'm sure that's just what Mr. Worthington was thinking as Luther Kite butchered him. 'Boy, I'm glad I have this faith.
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Of course it's for you. But it's also so those little diseased children don't become dracula snacks. We need to get them safe so they can be sick and die in peace.
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There is no decent place to stand in a massacre.
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Did you fabricate a silver lining there?" "If they had their faith, I believe they're in heaven." "I'm sure that's just what Mr. Worthington was thinking as Luther Kite butchered him. 'Boy, I'm glad I have this faith.'" "
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The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.
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We have fumbling, groping, backseat-of-the-car, unprotected-because-who-gives-a-fuck, protons-smashing-together sex.
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Ethan didn't miss those things. Didn't wish that his son was growing up in a world where people stared at screens all day. Where communication had devolved into the tapping of tiny letters and humanity lived by and large for the endorphin kick from the ping of a received text or a new e-mail.
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A quick glance left and right.
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As the doors closed and the elevator began to ascend, Randall frowned. "What's wrong?" Jenny asked. "The elevator music. I think it's a Metallica cover." She listened for a moment, then nodded. "I think you're right." "When did it become okay to do that to Metallica? There's no more decency in the world."
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Onto his side and pushed up into a sitting position, tucking his head between his knees. Sensed the instability of the world long before he opened his eyes, like its axis had been cut loose to teeter. His first deep breath.
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They say all art--whether books, music, or visual--is a reaction to other art, and I believe that to be true.
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As long as my people are with me, I'm ready for anything.
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we numb our minds to sleep on all manner of screens and HD entertainment, the meaning of life, of our existence and purpose, becomes lost.
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I hate clowns!" "That's not a real clown," another boy said. "That's just some guy dressed up like a clown!" --
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Shanna's words hung in the air like a crooked painting.
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Theolonious frowned. "So is a werewolfskunkdeer a person who changes into something that's a wolf, skunk, and deer all at once, like it has fur and Bambi eyes and sprays skunk spray, or is it a person who can change into a wolf or a skunk or a deer?"
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Could a werewolf eat a baby whole, in one bite?" asked Anthony. "I suppose one could," Hollis said. Actually, he knew that one could. Firsthand. Heh heh. "So when it pooped out the baby, would the baby be a werepoopwolf?" "What if a werepoopwolf bit a werewolfwolfskunkdeer?" "It would be a werewolfwolfwolfpoopskunkdeer."
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Day'll come, when he's grown and it's too late, that you'd give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy.
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Considering what he'd been through in the last five days, rote hallucinations would've been a welcome return to sanity.
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Jesus, the stink is making my eyes water." Harry said. "It smells like some fat guys with BO ate bad cheese and took a group shit on a rotting corpse."
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What do you think Nate the Nose is going to do to us when he finds out we lost his shit? We're both going to be eating San Francisco Hot Dogs, Willie." Willie's eyes got wide. Apparently the idea of having his dick cut off, boiled, and fed to him on a bun with a side of fries was several times worse than a whack to the hernia."
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But after absolute loss, it still continues." "What?" "You. Consciousness. There is life after hope, you know."
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On the minus side, I'd been driving for six straight hours, and I was hungry, tired, and needed to pee. I also needed gas, according to my gauge. Maybe Murray could take care of all my needs. Assuming I could find Murray's before falling asleep, running out of fuel, starving to death, and wetting my pants.
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A monitor, processor, and keyboard stood separately on the floor -- an old Tandy 1000 with the letters and numbers worn completely off the keys.
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