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1 " Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now. "
― Dean Koontz , Tick Tock
2 " The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones. "
3 " Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said. "
4 " Everything is more than it seems, but nothing is as mysterious as it appears to be. "
5 " Don't be negative. Negative thinking disturbs the fabric of the cosmos. "
6 " Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations. "
7 " The doll twitched. Its head turned slightly toward Tommy. Its green eye fixed on him. "
8 " It looks awful lonely here.""Most of the world is lonely corners.""I'm not sure it's safe.""Nowhere is safe unless you want it to be. "
9 " Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just that... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities. "
10 " Orange County, featured none but Mediterranean architecture; indeed, the Mediterranean style prevailed to such an extent that it sometimes seemed restfully consistent but at other times was boring, suffocating, as if the chief executive officer of Taco Bell had somehow become an all-powerful dictator and had decreed that everyone must live not in houses but in Mexican restaurants. "
11 " She kissed him too. She kissed him better than he had ever been kissed before. She had a talent for it, like throwing knives. "
