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He looked like he could have snapped the chains that held him as easily as you might snap the ribbons on a Christmas present, but when you looked in his face, you knew he wasn't going to do anything like that.

— Stephen King The Green Mile (1996)

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I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker.

Hearts in Atlantis (1999)

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Christine (1983)

Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room!

Everything's Eventual (2002)

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don't think it's in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.

Bag of Bones (1998)

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