Stephen King

SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel It,LATER is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.

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🌞Laur🌞

Tell you what, the worst part of growing up is how it shuts you up. 

Celine

“I heard her,” Mr.Thomas said. “I’m dead, not deaf.” 

I know they say you can’t miss what you’ve never had, and there’s some truth to that, but I knew I was missing 

That seems to have been a translation error which has been immortalized by Walt Disney, that homogenized of fairy tales. 

Adults have power, especially when they beg, and that’s what Liz was doing. 

I was on my own, and that was a lonely, scary place to be. 

But familiarity breeds contempt, so they say, and in this case the saying was true. 

Belief is a high hurdle to get over and I think it’s even higher for smart people. Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything. 

We passed a sign pointing to the Cuomo Bridge, which everybody in New York still calls the Tappan Zee, or just the Tap. 

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