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  • February 7th, 2012 9:28pm

    And so, my dear Constant Reader, I tell you this: You can stop here. You can let your last memory be of seeing Eddie, Susannah, and Jake in Central Park, together again for the first time, listening to the childrens’s choir sing “What Child Is This”. You can be content in the knowledge that sooner or later Oy (probably a canine version with a long neck, odd goldringed eyes, and a bark that sometimes sounds eerily like speech) will also enter the picture. That’s a pretty picture, isn’t it? I think so. And pretty close to happily ever after, too. Close enough for government work, as Eddie would say.

    Should you go on, you will surely be disappinted, perhaps even heartbroken. I have one key left on my belt, but all it opens is that final door, the one marked unfound. What’s behind it won’t improve your lovelife, grow hair on your bald spot, or add five years to your natural span (not even five minutes). There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal “Once upon a time”.

    Endings are heartless.
    Ending is just another word for goodbye.

    — Stephen King – The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (via goingnineteen)

  • February 7th, 2012 6:19pm

    Her voice was cool in the dark.
    “This can be for ever, Charles. Truly forever.”
    He remembered his meeting with Mycroft.
    “Nothing is for ever, my darling…”

    …the kiss broke and he stood back, leaving her baffled. Then the doors were opened and they were admitted into the Royal Presences.

    — Kim Newman – Anno Dracula (1992)

  • February 6th, 2012 2:56am

    To compensate for the difficulties in their lives, people spend a lot of their time daydreaming, imagining a future full of adventure, success, and romance. If you can create the illusion that through you they can live out their dreams, you will have them at your mercy. Aim at secret wishes that have been thwarted or repressed, stirring up uncontrollable emotions, clouding their powers of reason. Lead the seduced to a point of confusion in which they can no longer tell the difference between illusion and reality.

    — Robert Greene – The Art of Seduction

  • February 5th, 2012 5:28pm

    The Twilight Zone has existed in many lands, in many times. It has its roots in history, in something that happened long, long ago and got told about and handed down from one generation of folk to the other. In the telling the story gets added to and embroidered on, so that what might have happened in the time of the Druids is told as if it took place yesterday in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Such stories are best told by an elderly grandfather on a cold winter’s night by the fireside—in the southern hills of the Twilight Zone.

    — Rod Serling (via ahorton92)

  • February 1st, 2012 2:09pm

    I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

    — Edgar Allan Poe.