How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.
Stephen KingAt the time weโre stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. Itโs not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.
Stephen KingI guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen KingRage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear.
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