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Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
Lullaby (2002)
You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword.
Lullaby (2002)
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)
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble.
Lullaby (2002)
All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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)
Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All these little doses of emotion. Someone's always spraying the air with their mood.
Lullaby (2002)
Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.
So just relax, Helen Boyle told me, and just enjoy the ride.
She said, "Even absolute corruption has its perks.
Lullaby (2002)
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)
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Imagine the books burning. And tapes and films and files, radios and televisions, will all go into that same bonfire. All those libraries and bookstores blazing away in the night. People will attack microwave relay stations. People with axes will chop every fiber-optic cable.
Lullaby (2002)
It simply makes sense that I should miss my parents more than they miss me, especially when you consider that they only loved me for thirteen years while I loved them my entire life.
Damned (2011)
If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
Damned (2011)
The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
Lullaby (2002)
The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.
Lullaby (2002)
No detail is too minor to note.
Lullaby (2002)
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)