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  1. Peter Straub _ Ghost Story

    Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by.
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  2. Peter Straub _ Ghost Story

    and rising extremely unlike Phoebus with the dawn to prepare the schoolhouse.
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  3. Peter Straub _ Borderlands 4

    Charlie Carpenter rang Lily Sheehan's bell, and when she opened the door he gave her a blue rose. This stands for dying, for death. My daddy met the man who grew them, and when the man tried to run away my daddy shot him in the back.
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  4. Peter Straub _ Poe's Children: The New

    {Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man."} Sometimes I even
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  5. Peter Straub _ Ghost Story

    It seemed that if you listened to that snow hissing long enough, you wouldn't just hear it telling you that it was waiting for you, you'd hear some terrible secret-a secret to turn your life black.
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  6. Peter Straub _ Borderlands 4

    Why did God make lonely people? Answer: He was lonely, too.
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  7. Peter Straub _ Ghost Story

    But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,' Sears said. 'I don't know if I do or do not,' I said. 'Like most people.
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  8. Peter Straub _ Ghost Story

    it didn't have a real ending. It just slipped backward when other things happened.
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  9. Peter Straub _ A Dark Matter

    She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate.
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  10. Peter Straub _ Pork Pie Hat

    It struck me that his innate elegance, the product of his character & bearing much more than of the handsome suit and the suede shoes, had been paid for by the surviving of a thousand unimaginable difficulties, each painful to a varying degree. Then I realized that what I meant by elegance was really dignity, that for the first time I had recognized actual dignity in another human being, and that dignity was nothing like the self-congratulatory superiority people usually mistook for it.
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  11. Peter Straub _ Floating Dragon

    As for what I'm doing now," he said, "I guess I'm trying to bring the past to life.
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  12. Peter Straub _ Ghost Story

    I do know that nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.
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