Lullaby (2002) (edit title/settings)

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• Carl Streator: Upon doing research for an upcoming special, the protagonist learns of the culling spell and determines to put it to rest.
• Helen Hoover Boyle: Helen is introduced as the novel's "hero," known for her real estate business concerning haunted houses and her experience with the spell.
• Mona Sabbat: Assistant of Helen, environmentalist, practises wicca
• Oyster: Mona´s boyfriend, fanatical environmentalist, loves animals more than people
• Sarge: Throughout the book, Streater adds sentiments about his current life on the road with this old cop.
• John Nash: A paramedic who Streater works with on the SID special and who sometimes spill extra information at the right price.
• Patrick: Add a description of this character.
• Duncan
• Henderson
• Helen Boyle
• Oliphant
• Gina
• Dr. Sara
• Attorneys-at-law

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• “The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”

• “There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.”

• “The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950´s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

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• The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.

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• In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

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• maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish.

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• Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?

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• Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can’t understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation’s clothes and hair suddenly retro.

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• Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled.

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• No one wants to admit we’re addicted to music. That’s just not possible. No one’s addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can’t bear to be without it, but no, nobody’s addicted.

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• What I’m talking about is free will. Do we have it, or does God dictate and script everything we do and say and want? Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

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• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

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• I need to rebel against myself. It’s the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

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• Iona
• America
• Nevada

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• Grimore: The Book of the Witches

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Chuck Palahniuk (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Bram Stoker Award (Finalist, 2002: Novel)

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• Library of Congress: PS3566.A4554
• Dewey: 818'.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › United States
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary