Paul Tremblay Quotes

#1. The charging indicator light on the camera was still red.

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#2. Are you good at keeping secrets, Merry?" "I'm better than some." I pause, then add, "More often than not, they keep me," only because it sounds simultaneously mysterious and pithy.

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#3. All cats are assholes. It's what makes them so cool." "True.

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#4. You can find the molasses flood on the Internet, it's there, I checked. Most of it is there, anyway, but that's not where I heard it." "Where, then?" She

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#5. I'm - I'm Marjorie, a fourteen-year-old girl, scared of everything, who doesn't know why she hears voices that tell her confusing things. And I try to be good and I try. Try not to listen to them.
Are you scared and confused like I am? I think everyone is secretly like me.

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#6. Sometimes it's good to be sad, Merry. Don't forget that.

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#7. I swoon into a standing eight count. Goddamn, I actually feel my consciousness want to detach and hide like a turtle retreating into a hopelessly soft shell that won't save anyone.

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#8. Passage of time as a prop to the story, the story that has been told and retold so often it has lost its meaning, even to those of us who lived through it.

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#9. See The Last Exorcism. But don't see its dumbass ending.

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#10. He's probably seen that horrible Johnny Depp version of the movie. That you kids like it and not the original Gene Wilder version is sacrilege." "Mom,

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#11. Ideas. I'm possessed by ideas. Ideas that are as old as humanity, maybe older, right? Maybe those ideas were out there just floating around before us, just waiting to be thought up. Maybe we don't think them, we pluck them out from another dimension or another mind.

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#12. Hope is a desperate man's currency.

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#13. I'm a name and a question.

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#14. The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.

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#15. The TV people. I like calling them that. The TV people. And they have TVs for heads and their faces can change when the channels change.

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#16. She kept talking and she kept talking. I thought she would never stop. Standing there, I felt the sun pour through the windows, setting and rising on my back. The sunroom had become a sundial measuring the geological age of my psychological toture.

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#17. Actually, I'm possessed, only I'm possessed by something so much older and cooler than Satan.

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#18. Go ahead, say it. Crazy. Right? Your daughter was going crazy. So why not stop at church? Makes perfect sense to me." "Marjorie

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#19. It was so dark it was like noting was there in the room but us. Only the nothing was actually something because it filled my eyes and lungs and it sat on my shoulders.

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#20. Being asked to read another writer's rough draft is the literary equivalent of being asked to help a friend move a couch to a new place.

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#21. you couldn't coach speed.

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#23. Now there's only me and everything else is on the periphery, just slightly out of reach or out of touch or out of time.

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#24. I am the dead dreamer, older than sin, older than humanity. I am the shadow below everything. I am the beautiful thing that awaits us all.

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#25. I had a brief runaway fantasy where I ran away to California, which I'd never been to, to where all the Bigfoots were, and I'd disappear into the woods and live alone, become a rumor, an occasional blurred sighting. Father

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#26. I'm like a friend admitting some reprehensible bit of behavior that forever warps and taints the relationship. Only I'm not a friend. I think I understand her obvious discomfort. Strangers are supposed to lie.

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#27. So heaven was this vague, uneasy, almost cartoonish concept, a confusing cultural mash up of puffy clouds, harps, winged Angel's, Golden sunlight, a giant hand that may or may not belong to a giant man with a flowing white beard named God.

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#28. On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.

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#29. Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found.

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#30. Now I'm thinking about letters, the molecules of sentences and songs, the bricks of words.

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