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Joe Hill Quote: “His own eyes prickle wetly. His blond hair darkens with sweat; pearls of water stand out on his smooth six-year-old forehead. The longer he stares back, the wider the gaze seems to get, like a grin. Her eyes radiate hard spines of heat, which drill into him. Timmy Babson feels punctured, “seen.” “Jane!” Timmy screams for his mother, calling for her by her first name for the first time. “Jane, Jane! It’s looking.”

401. “His own eyes prickle wetly. His blond hair darkens with sweat; pearls of water stand out on his smooth six-year-old forehead. The longer he stares back, the wider the gaze seems to get, like a grin. Her eyes radiate hard spines of heat, which drill into him. Timmy Babson feels punctured, “seen.” “Jane!” Timmy screams for his mother, calling for her by her first name for the first time. “Jane, Jane! It’s looking.”

Joe Hill Quote: “It was less like she was lying in their dark bedroom, surfing the web to read about other women’s miscarriages, and more as if the building had collapsed on them and they were trapped under tons of brick and plaster.”

402. “It was less like she was lying in their dark bedroom, surfing the web to read about other women’s miscarriages, and more as if the building had collapsed on them and they were trapped under tons of brick and plaster.”

Joe Hill Quote: “If he took you camping after he died, my boy, then you would have a story to tell!”

403. “If he took you camping after he died, my boy, then you would have a story to tell!”

Joe Hill Quote: “Oh, yeah,” my dad said. “Check out Such Men Are Dangerous, the novel Block wrote as Paul Kavanagh. That book is less like a novel, more like getting mugged in an alley.” Such Men Are Dangerous was the story of an ex-soldier who had done ugly things in the war and come home looking to do some ugly things right here. While it has been decades since I read it, I think my dad’s assessment was roughly correct.”

404. “Oh, yeah,” my dad said. “Check out Such Men Are Dangerous, the novel Block wrote as Paul Kavanagh. That book is less like a novel, more like getting mugged in an alley.” Such Men Are Dangerous was the story of an ex-soldier who had done ugly things in the war and come home looking to do some ugly things right here. While it has been decades since I read it, I think my dad’s assessment was roughly correct.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Miriam sang, “Gail, Gail, she bosses everyone around. Gail, Gail, she is really stupid.” The melody was just as good as the lyrics.”

405. “Miriam sang, “Gail, Gail, she bosses everyone around. Gail, Gail, she is really stupid.” The melody was just as good as the lyrics.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Ever try not to think? It’s like trying not to breathe – no one can do it for long.”

406. “Ever try not to think? It’s like trying not to breathe – no one can do it for long.”

Joe Hill Quote: “The Gasmask Man.”

407. “The Gasmask Man.”

Joe Hill Quote: “She’d thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related.”

408. “She’d thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related.”

Joe Hill Quote: “I hope you didn’t burn up, British Isles! Where would the world be without your epic contributions to culture: Duran Duran, Idris Elba, and Love Actually? Drop me an e-mail, England, let me know you’re still hanging in there!”

409. “I hope you didn’t burn up, British Isles! Where would the world be without your epic contributions to culture: Duran Duran, Idris Elba, and Love Actually? Drop me an e-mail, England, let me know you’re still hanging in there!”

Joe Hill Quote: “You want to be able to read such stories in just one or two sittings. You want them to feel like a hand on your throat.”

410. “You want to be able to read such stories in just one or two sittings. You want them to feel like a hand on your throat.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Remember the stone in her fist.”

411. “Remember the stone in her fist.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Men, she thought, were one of the world’s few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in slippers.”

412. “Men, she thought, were one of the world’s few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in slippers.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Thoughts flashed by, like cards glimpsed as the dealer shuffles the deck.”

413. “Thoughts flashed by, like cards glimpsed as the dealer shuffles the deck.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Then something explodes behind her eyelids into a radial green fan, dazzling her with pain. Her neck aches, her abdomen. The pain moves lower. It feels as if an umbrella were opening below her navel. Menstrual cramps, she thinks. Seconds later, as with a soldering iron, an acute and narrowly focused heat climbs her spine.”

414. “Then something explodes behind her eyelids into a radial green fan, dazzling her with pain. Her neck aches, her abdomen. The pain moves lower. It feels as if an umbrella were opening below her navel. Menstrual cramps, she thinks. Seconds later, as with a soldering iron, an acute and narrowly focused heat climbs her spine.”

Joe Hill Quote: “In the distance, she could hear the congregation roaring the Talking Heads, bellowing about the sweet release of burning it all down.”

415. “In the distance, she could hear the congregation roaring the Talking Heads, bellowing about the sweet release of burning it all down.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Come! All ye faithful! Jiggy and triii-umphant! Come all ye faithful, sing yay for the Lord!”

416. “Come! All ye faithful! Jiggy and triii-umphant! Come all ye faithful, sing yay for the Lord!”

Joe Hill Quote: “Although nothing keeps a person youthful like happiness. Innocent fun is as good as pickling a fellow!”

417. “Although nothing keeps a person youthful like happiness. Innocent fun is as good as pickling a fellow!”

Joe Hill Quote: “She had learned from Jakob to think of people who spoke of blessings and faith as simple and a little infirm. People who thought things happened for a reason were to be pitied. Such folk had given up their curiosity about the universe for a comforting children’s story.”

418. “She had learned from Jakob to think of people who spoke of blessings and faith as simple and a little infirm. People who thought things happened for a reason were to be pitied. Such folk had given up their curiosity about the universe for a comforting children’s story.”

Joe Hill Quote: “For all we know, we might’ve already slipped into the future without noticing it.”

419. “For all we know, we might’ve already slipped into the future without noticing it.”

Joe Hill Quote: “I patted the party gun dry, set it down next to the sink, and schlopped off my wet shirt.”

420. “I patted the party gun dry, set it down next to the sink, and schlopped off my wet shirt.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Science Fiction stories are the dazzling flares we launch into the darkness, to catch a glimpse of the country before us and show us our way.”

421. “Science Fiction stories are the dazzling flares we launch into the darkness, to catch a glimpse of the country before us and show us our way.”

Joe Hill Quote: “This is the way people dream of being kissed, a movie star kiss.”

422. “This is the way people dream of being kissed, a movie star kiss.”

Joe Hill Quote: “I’d rather ask questions,” she said, “than answer them.”

423. “I’d rather ask questions,” she said, “than answer them.”

Joe Hill Quote: “It would be a librarian.”

424. “It would be a librarian.”

Joe Hill Quote: “He watched until Danny passed through the gates, turned left, and disappeared from sight. Jude never saw him again.”

425. “He watched until Danny passed through the gates, turned left, and disappeared from sight. Jude never saw him again.”

Joe Hill Quote: “She thought, too, with a certain calm satisfaction, that if the bridge did crash into the river, ten stories below, and she was smashed in the rubble, it would be her parents’ fault for fighting and driving her out of the house, and that would teach them.”

426. “She thought, too, with a certain calm satisfaction, that if the bridge did crash into the river, ten stories below, and she was smashed in the rubble, it would be her parents’ fault for fighting and driving her out of the house, and that would teach them.”

Joe Hill Quote: “It was ludicrous to cry because there was no more Google, but for a moment Harper felt very close to weeping. The idea that Google could collapse and be gone was as hard to imagine as the fall of the Twin Towers. It had seemed at least as permanent a part of the cultural landscape.”

427. “It was ludicrous to cry because there was no more Google, but for a moment Harper felt very close to weeping. The idea that Google could collapse and be gone was as hard to imagine as the fall of the Twin Towers. It had seemed at least as permanent a part of the cultural landscape.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Harper’s face was buried in Mr. Truffle’s fur and with each inhalation she smelled the last nine months of his secret cat life: must, dust, grave dirt, basements and tall grass, beach and drainpipe, Dumpster and dandelions. The.”

428. “Harper’s face was buried in Mr. Truffle’s fur and with each inhalation she smelled the last nine months of his secret cat life: must, dust, grave dirt, basements and tall grass, beach and drainpipe, Dumpster and dandelions. The.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Lady Gaga or Amanda Palmer or something. Some cute lunatic with a piano.”

429. “Lady Gaga or Amanda Palmer or something. Some cute lunatic with a piano.”

Joe Hill Quote: “American productivity would, I believe, nearly double if everyone were free to work pantsless.”

430. “American productivity would, I believe, nearly double if everyone were free to work pantsless.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Right,” said the wolf. He said it “Ro-ight,” had a bit of a Liverpoolian accent. Liverpudlian, Saunders corrected himself mentally, randomly. No, Scouse. They called it Scouse, which sounded like a disease, something you might die from after being bitten by a wild animal.”

431. “Right,” said the wolf. He said it “Ro-ight,” had a bit of a Liverpoolian accent. Liverpudlian, Saunders corrected himself mentally, randomly. No, Scouse. They called it Scouse, which sounded like a disease, something you might die from after being bitten by a wild animal.”

Joe Hill Quote: “The last note hung in the air like a snowflake that refused to fall.”

432. “The last note hung in the air like a snowflake that refused to fall.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Sounds could suggest shapes, painted a picture of the pocket of air in which they’d been given form.”

433. “Sounds could suggest shapes, painted a picture of the pocket of air in which they’d been given form.”

Joe Hill Quote: “They glowed in the darkness, all of them: pale shining wisps with rings of light where their eyes belonged, as if they were the dead – ghosts risen from their graves – not Gilbert Cline. Harper felt their grief as a slow current of cold water, and herself as a leaf revolving upon it. As.”

434. “They glowed in the darkness, all of them: pale shining wisps with rings of light where their eyes belonged, as if they were the dead – ghosts risen from their graves – not Gilbert Cline. Harper felt their grief as a slow current of cold water, and herself as a leaf revolving upon it. As.”

Joe Hill Quote: “She was being erased a little at a time by a cancer that fed not on her flesh but on her inner life, on her private store of happiness.”

435. “She was being erased a little at a time by a cancer that fed not on her flesh but on her inner life, on her private store of happiness.”

Joe Hill Quote: “We’ll have to take it slow from here on out,” the Fireman said. He had that one wrong.”

436. “We’ll have to take it slow from here on out,” the Fireman said. He had that one wrong.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Thank you, Maggie. For everything. For trying to warn me. For helping me. I’d give anything to take back the way I acted when I saw you in Haverhill. I was scared of you. That’s not an excuse. There isn’t any excuse. There’s a lot of things I wish I could redo. You can’t imagine. I wish there was something I could do to show you how sorry I am. Something I could give you besides words.”

437. “Thank you, Maggie. For everything. For trying to warn me. For helping me. I’d give anything to take back the way I acted when I saw you in Haverhill. I was scared of you. That’s not an excuse. There isn’t any excuse. There’s a lot of things I wish I could redo. You can’t imagine. I wish there was something I could do to show you how sorry I am. Something I could give you besides words.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Wayne was certain dogs were as superstitious as humans. More, maybe.”

438. “Wayne was certain dogs were as superstitious as humans. More, maybe.”

Joe Hill Quote: “In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day.”

439. “In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Later, she thought, not imagining that there wouldn’t be a later. Not for Father Storey.”

440. “Later, she thought, not imagining that there wouldn’t be a later. Not for Father Storey.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Ma’am,” Cline said, “I hid under dead bodies less cold than you.” He glanced at Harper and.”

441. “Ma’am,” Cline said, “I hid under dead bodies less cold than you.” He glanced at Harper and.”

Joe Hill Quote: “She said, “I love you, Con,” because whatever Jakob believed about those three words, they still mattered to Harper. They were as close to an incantation as any she knew, had power other words lacked. “I’ll.”

442. “She said, “I love you, Con,” because whatever Jakob believed about those three words, they still mattered to Harper. They were as close to an incantation as any she knew, had power other words lacked. “I’ll.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Why don’t you hit Ig?” Terry whispered. “He’s the one checking out little redheads. Thinking lustful thoughts. He’s coveting. Look at him. You can see it on his face. Look at that coveting expression.” “Covetous,” Derrick said.”

443. “Why don’t you hit Ig?” Terry whispered. “He’s the one checking out little redheads. Thinking lustful thoughts. He’s coveting. Look at him. You can see it on his face. Look at that coveting expression.” “Covetous,” Derrick said.”

Joe Hill Quote: “I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman’s power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. The devil is first a literary critic, who delivers this untalented scribbler the public flaying He deserves.”

444. “I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman’s power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. The devil is first a literary critic, who delivers this untalented scribbler the public flaying He deserves.”

Joe Hill Quote: “Not that they were married. They never would’ve married. All firemen are wedded to cinders, in the end.”

445. “Not that they were married. They never would’ve married. All firemen are wedded to cinders, in the end.”

Joe Hill Quote: “She wished she were not so aware of the vast gulf between what the men in her life thought she was worth and her actual value. She had, it seemed to her, always asked and expected too much and given too little. She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.”

446. “She wished she were not so aware of the vast gulf between what the men in her life thought she was worth and her actual value. She had, it seemed to her, always asked and expected too much and given too little. She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.”

Joe Hill Quote: “The dark man fled across the snow and Arthur Oakes followed.”

447. “The dark man fled across the snow and Arthur Oakes followed.”

Joe Hill Quote: “They made their unsteady way up onto damp, firm sand, through the cool wet.”

448. “They made their unsteady way up onto damp, firm sand, through the cool wet.”

Joe Hill Quote: “All it took to turn a CD into a knife or a tape gun into a .45 was a little imagination, a little panic, and a lot of prejudice.”

449. “All it took to turn a CD into a knife or a tape gun into a .45 was a little imagination, a little panic, and a lot of prejudice.”

450. “At first glance Bing knew that although this man might have passed for forty or so, he was much older than that. His eyes had the soft, faded look of sea glass; they were old eyes, unfathomably old. He had a long, harrowed face, wise and kindly, although he had an overbite and his teeth were a little crooked. It was the sort of face, Bing supposed, that some people would describe as ferretlike, but in profile it also would’ve looked just fine on currency.”

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