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1 " FEAR stands for fuck everything and run. "
― Stephen King , Doctor Sleep
2 " There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went. "
3 " FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying "
4 " All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. "
5 " Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present. "
6 " At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it'. Dan thought he would always regret the past, but he had quit trying to shut the door. Why bother, when it would just come open again? The fucking had no latch, let alone a lock. "
7 " Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought. "
8 " The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say. "
9 " She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale. "
10 " There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went. "
11 " No great thing is created suddenly. "
12 " Death was no less a miracle than birth. "
13 " A life without love is like a tree without fruit. "
14 " You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said. "
15 " The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young. "
16 " Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started. "
17 " I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present. "
18 " Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think. "
19 " If you're one of us, the bottle takes your shit, that's all. First a little, then a lot, then everything. "
20 " Was there ever a teenage girl who felt anything less than immortal? "