In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")
Peter StraubStichwörter: yearning violence
And then a prince will come along and say the magic words and three ravens will give you the magic tokens and a fish will carry you on his back
Peter StraubIt was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work.
Peter StraubStichwörter: small-towns hamlets
Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up.
Peter StraubWolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
Peter StraubStichwörter: horror-authors
I know this doesn't make sense, but if we ever did this before, exactly this, with you sitting over there and me here, in this same room, well, wasn't the food even better? I mean, a lot better?
Peter StraubWhat was the worst thing you've ever done?
I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...
Stichwörter: ghost-story
The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.
Peter StraubYou'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.
Peter StraubIt is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.
Peter StraubStichwörter: terror posttraumatic-stress-disorder ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder flashback flashbacks
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