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41 " Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same. "
― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box
42 " Джуд подозираше, че в действителност Дани няма никакви музикални предпочитания и радиото е просто за фон, нещо като звуков еквивалент на тапетите. "
43 " The idea that her death should precede his was worse than intolerable, it was obscene. "
44 " The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads, to let the demons out, to relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. "
45 " Jude collected them in almost exactly the same way the Pied Piper had collected rats, and children. He made melodies out of hate and perversion and pain, and they came to him, skipping to the music, hoping he would let them sing along. "
46 " I’d rather ask questions,” she said, “than answer them. "
47 " Repulsion masks attraction. "
48 " Lake Pontchartrain, huh? "
49 " You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?"."You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor. "
50 " If hell was anything, it was talk radio—and family. In "
51 " The dead win when you quit singing and let them take you on down the road with them.” Something "
52 " Sounds could suggest shapes, painted a picture of the pocket of air in which they’d been given form "
53 " lowered, rearing away from the suit. Georgia laughed. “It is haunted,” she said. She held the suit in front of her and waved it back and forth, walking it through the air toward Angus, flapping it at him, a bullfighter with cape. She moaned as she closed in on him, the "
54 " In Vietnam he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He was discharged with honors and settled in Florida. "
55 " He watched until Danny passed through the gates, turned left, and disappeared from sight. Jude never saw him again. "
56 " Horror was rooted in sympathy, after all, in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst. "
57 " Who was the Ghost?""Her cousin Freddy, He'd hung himself in the summer. He was fifteen. They were really close Freddy & Sheryll.""What did he want?"'He said there was pictures in his family's barn of guys in their underwear. He told us right where to find them, hidden under a floorboard. He said he didn't want his parents to know he was gay and be anymore upset than they were. He said that's why he killed himself, because he didn't want to be gay anymore. Then he said, 'souls aren't boys and aren't girls. They're only souls. He said there is no gay and he had made is mama sorrowful for nothin'. I remember that exactly. That he used the word sorrowful. "
58 " He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should’ve reassured him but didn’t. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb. "
59 " It was hard to venture back near the place you had been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you had been there. "
60 " Ozzy Osbourne has Pomeranians,” the UPS guy said. “I saw them on TV. Cute little dogs like house cats. You ever think about getting a couple cute little dogs like that? "