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A book is as private and consensual as sex.
Haunted (2005)
Really, there is no wrong. Not in our minds. Our own reality.
Haunted (2005)
The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
Haunted (2005)
That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.
Haunted (2005)
As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.'
Haunted (2005)
I lost my virginity through my ear.
Haunted (2005)
What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control of the game. It's the same with pills, sedatives and painkillers, every swallow is a first definite step down some road.
Haunted (2005)
People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
Haunted (2005)
Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.
Haunted (2005)
I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
Haunted (2005)
Leather shoes and fried chicken and dead soldiers are only a tragedy if you waste their gift sitting in front of the television. Or stuck in traffic. Or stranded at some airport.
Haunted (2005)
Some stories, Mr.Whitter would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up. p288
Haunted (2005)
That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
Haunted (2005)
If we can forgive what's been done to us... If we can forgive what we've done to others... If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.
Haunted (2005)
"Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us," Mr Whittier says, "It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences."
Haunted (2005)
The whole idea of men creating perfect robot women for their own pleasure, it happens every day. The most "beautiful" women you see in public, none of them are for real. They're just men perpetuating their perverted stereotypes of women. Just the oldest story in the world. There's a penis on every page of Cosmopolitan magazine if you know where to look.
Haunted (2005)
"What matters," Sister Vigilante says, "is, people need a monster they can believe in." A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.
Haunted (2005)