"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
"When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain."
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Source: Stephen King (1985). “Danse Macabre”, Berkley
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