"Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be."
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"Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought."
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"Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish."
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"You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas."
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"It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine."
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"Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember."
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"The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it."
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"Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear"
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"Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap."
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"Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed."
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"The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh."
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"He killed them with their love."
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"On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?"
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"Good days and long nights to ya, sai."
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"How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation."
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"I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal."
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"The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking."
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"See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle."
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"Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found."
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"We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do."
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