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1 " Time takes it all in the end... "
― Stephen King , A Good Marriage
2 " You realize that you are in a hell of your own making, but you go on nevertheless. Because there is nothing else to do. "
3 " Her face was slack with decay, the lower half slewed to one side, her grin wider than ever. It was a knowing grin, and why not? The dead understand everything. She was surrounded by her loyal court. "
4 " For the next ten minutes we talked theology in the green corn while early summer clouds—the best clouds, the ones that float like schooners—sailed slowly above us, trailing their shadows like wakes. "
5 " The rats are probably back already, a voice deep in my mind whispered. Eating her. They’ll finish the good parts, the tasty parts, the delicacies, and then "
6 " For the first time in years, Darcy Madsen Anderson slipped from her chair onto her knees and began to pray. It did no good. The house was empty except for her. "
7 " never leave a book facedown and open when he paused in his reading—because, he said, it broke the spines. "
8 " heard a foreman berating a clerk for sending an order to Des Moines instead of Davenport before the clerk had gotten the shipping form from the front office. "
9 " Especially those. Would you like to come, Darcy?” She came. And she came on their wedding night, too. Not terribly often after that, but now and then. "
10 " She wasn't a kid anymore, and couldn't get away with a kid's craziness. "