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  1. Peter Straub _ Shadowland

    The wizard stirs, opens his eyes, and looks at the reluctant boy. "Oh, you'll get your heart broken," he says. "Is that what you're waiting to hear? It'll be broken, all right. But you'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart. That's the way of it, boy.
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  2. Peter Straub _ Shadowland

    A long time ago, when we all lived in the forest and none of us lived anywhere else,
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  3. Peter Straub _ The Throat

    Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they don't have any of those things.They stare at us, they don't miss anything. They really see what's going on, and we hardly ever really see that. We're too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of what's happening.
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  4. Peter Straub _ Mrs. God

    He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed: he was his own baby...He was a great fat chuckling baby, and he shat and peed in his filthy trousers and kept driving.
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  5. Peter Straub _ Shadowland

    God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
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  6. Peter Straub _ Julia

    I'm being haunted," she blurted out. "My dear," he cooed. "Turn yourself into a tourist attraction and charge admission.
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  7. Peter Straub _ Shadowland

    What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.
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  8. Peter Straub _ Shadowland

    The face was no longer bone, but animal - the face of a white wolf. "I forbid you nothing. " uttered the awful face. "You may go anywhere - you may open any door. But, little bird, remember that you must be prepared to accept whatever you find." The long jaws spread in a smile filled with teeth.
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  9. Peter Straub _ Shadowland

    He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism;
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  10. Peter Straub _ American Fantastic Tales:

    It is not believed that a people capable of inventing the genre of "oral painting" could have spawned the viaduct killer, and in any case no ghetto resident is permitted access to any other area of the city. {"A Short Guide To The City"}
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  11. Peter Straub _ A Dark Matter

    David," I said, "no matter what my intentions are, everything I write winds up turning into fiction, including my letters to friends.
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  12. Peter Straub _ Mr. X

    Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up.
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