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Just After Sunset
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Stephen King-who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies-delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short... read more

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  • “Don't you know he sees that runner of snot hanging out of your nose, and it makes him madder than ever?”
  • “There was only one other car in the sprawling parking area at this hour, one of those PT Cruisers that never failed to amuse him--they looked like toy gangster cars out of the 1930s.”
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  • the medical definition of miracle is misdiagnosis.
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  • As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mothers’ fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.
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  • My mother once told me that if a man wiped his ass and saw blood on the toilet tissue, his response would be to shit in the dark for the next thirty days and hope for the best. She used this example to illustrate her belief that the cornerstone of male philosophy was “If you ignore it, maybe it’ll go away.”
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  • Like the man said, we learn by doing. And we learn even more by trying and failing.
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  • “They did it in the name of God, but there is no God. If there was a God, Mr. Staley, He would have struck all eighteen of them dead in their boarding lounges with their boarding passes in their hands, but no God did. They called for passengers to get on and those fucks just got on.”
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  • There’s a gate in our heads, too—that’s what I think. One that keeps the insanity in all of us from flooding our intellects. And at critical moments, it swings open and all kinds of weird shit comes flooding through.
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  • She didn’t smile. I’m not sure she even got the Tom Robbins reference (obliqueness is the curse of the reading class).
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  • dreams don’t have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.
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You don't see what's right in front of your eyes, she'd said, but sometimes he did.

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Willa
The Gingerbread Girl
Harvey’s Dream
Rest Stop
Stationary Bike
The Things They Left Behind
Graduation Afternoon
N
The Cat from Hell
The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
Mute
Ayana
A Very Tight Place

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This book is in 2010-2011 Iowa High School Battle of the Books. (authoritative list)
This book is in Well-Designed Book Covers. (community list)

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  1. Stephen King (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: U. S. A.
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 1416584080
Page Count: 367

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  • Library of Congress: PS3561.I483 J87 2008
  • Dewey: 813.54

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Reading Level: Young Adults

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