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21 " Sometimes he makes us live. "
― Stephen King , Desperation
22 " God says, "Sure, take away the safety net. And when that's gone, take away the tight rope too. "
23 " Everything is better when it shits on a ritz. "
24 " So it always has been; so shall it be, life sucks, then you die. "
25 " She was wearing a tank-top with torn-off sleeves. It gave an awfully generous view of her breasts for a girl worried about meeting Ted Bundy in a Ryder van. "
26 " Desert lore. Scripture in the wasteland. The resonance of lonely places. "
27 " God is cruel,” David said in a voice almost too low to hear. "
28 " Lips which lie are best kept silent. "
29 " Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed. "
30 " IN THESE SILENCES SOMETHING MAY RISE. "
31 " Uck,” he said, grimacing, and reached into his mouth like a man who’s got a hair on his tongue. Instead of a hair he pulled out the tongue itself. He looked at it for a moment, lying limply in his fist like a piece of liver, and then tossed it aside. "
32 " He burst out laughing. She probably wouldn't like it, but he couldn't help it. That was the way laughing was, sort of like farting, sometimes you could hold it in but a lot of times you couldn't. "