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The Stand
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“I’m not on you, man, come on. I’m just hanging suspended above you. Like the great invisible world.”
― The Stand
― The Stand

“Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.”
― The Stand
― The Stand

“When he got to the tank’s flat, circular cap, it seemed that he must be standing directly under the roof of the world, and if he reached up he could scratch blue chalk from the bottom of the sky with his fingernails”
― The Stand
― The Stand

“He remembered meeting her in the park, and how he had thought her conversation seemed like a careless spray of diamonds on the green felt of a billiard table. Since yesterday afternoon it had seemed more like the glitter of zircons, near-perfect pastes that were, after all, only pastes.”
― The Stand
― The Stand

“Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call “society.â€� Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― The Stand
― The Stand

“In that brief time between, the night had been a fragrant puzzle, a time when, looking up at the star-strewn sky and listening to the breeze that brought such intoxicating smells, you felt close to the heartbeat of the universe, to love and life.”
― The Stand
― The Stand

“And then a frightful red Eye opened in the dark: vulpine, eldritch. The Eye terrified him yet held him. The Eye beckoned him. To the west, where the shadows were even now gathering, in their twilight dance of death.”
― The Stand
― The Stand

“For the one instant the feeling held, Mother Abagail actually fancied that the woman’s face was gone and she was looking into a hole in time and space, a hole from which two eyes, dark and damned, stared out at her—eyes that were lost and haggard and hopeless.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
Reading Progress
Finished Reading
December 12, 2017
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9.64%
"I haven't read SK in a long time and I must admit how impressed I am. He has peak performance here in my opinion, and the feeling, something extremely special about this artist."
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111
September 21, 2019
– Shelved