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I think that everybody has a backhoe in his or her head, and at moments of stress or trouble you can fire it up and simply push everything into a great big slit-trench in the floor of your conscious mind. Get rid of it. Bury it. Except that that slit-trench goes down into the subconscious, and sometimes, in dreams, the bodies stir and walk.

— Stephen King Christine (1983)

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

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

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