Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you c…

Peter Straub
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Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side. ✨ Peter Straub (2015). Ghost Story, p.302, Penguin
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Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight. ✨ Peter Straub (2015). Shadowland, p.140, Penguin
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear. ✨ PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear. Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
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I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. ✨ PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear. Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side. ✨ Peter Straub (2015). Ghost Story, p.302, Penguin

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