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| Hall was sitting on the bench by the elevator, the only place on the third floor where a working joe could catch a smoke, when Warwick came up. | |
| Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son. | |
| Everything, Sam Peebles decided later, was the fault of the goddamned acrobat. | |
| An old blue Ford pulled into the guarded parking lot that morning, looking like a small, tired dog after a hard run. | |
| Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. | |
| No one - least of all Dr. Litchfield - came right out and told Ralph Roberts that his wife was going to die, but there came a time when Ralph understood without needing to be told. | |
| 'I came to you because I want to tell my story,' the man on Dr. Harper's couch was saying. | |
| 'Sally'. | |
| Somewhere, high above, the moon shines down, fat and full - but here, in Tarker's Mills, a January blizzard has choked the sky with snow. | |
| The terror, which would not end for another 28 years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter. | |
| There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess - I'm the guy who can get it for you. | |
| On September 15, 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come together, hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking out at the steady Atlantic. | |
| Jessie could hear the back door banging lightly, randomly, in the October breeze blowing around the house. | |
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| Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons. | |
| Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. | |
| This is what happened. | |
| By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953. | |
| Umber whunnnn - yerrrnnn umber whunnnn - fayunnnn - These sounds: even in the haze. | |
| 'ASK ME A RIDDLE,' Blaine invited. | |
| 'Daddy, I'm tired,' the little girl in the red pants and the green blouse said fretfully. | |
| People's lives - their real lives, as opposed to their simple physical existences - begin at different times. | |
| On a very hot day in August of 1994, my wife told me she was going down to the Derry Rite Aid to pick up a refill on her sinus medicine prescription - this is stuff you can buy ove | |
| From 2,000 feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester's Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down. | |
| The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. | |
| 'Thinner,' the old Gypsy man with the rotting nose whispers to William Halleck as Halleck and his wife, Heidi, come out of the courthouse. | |
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