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Ghost Story

#1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub’s classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past... What was the worst thing you’ve ever done? In the sleepy town of Milburn, N

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Peter Straub (2)Jim Butcher (2)

“I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.”

— Jim Butcher, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice, realizations, plans

“Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there…”

— Jim Butcher, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Failure, strength, Teaching

“What's the worst thing you've ever done?”

— Peter Straub, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“It 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…”

— Peter Straub, amazon.com

Tagged: Fear, Despair